none-so-pretty
Americannoun
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none-so-pretties
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of none-so-pretty
First recorded in 1690–1700
Example Sentences
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They passed some cottages with pretty gardens in front; they stopped for a second to look at the old-fashioned columbine and monkshood, the none-so-pretty, the yellow and crimson wall-flower, the peony roses.
From Prince Fortunatus by William Black
Come, none-so-pretty, cough the old wheeze up, Before it chokes you.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
To these let me add the New England folk-names—bird's-eye, garden-gate, johnny-jump-up, kit-run-about, none-so-pretty, and ladies'-delight.
From Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
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