prairie rose
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prairie rose
An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
Example Sentences
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In one pudgy hand she carried a slightly smashed prairie rose, in the other a bent wild iris.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
She was ignorant of her beauty as a prairie rose.
From The Way of the Wind by Norris, Zoe Anderson
The prairie seemed spread out for leagues before them, covered with herds of buffaloes and deer, while immense flocks of turkeys and other birds of the prairie rose before them.
From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
"Your prairie rose is nothing but a dandelion!" remarked Christine Crosswood.
From For the Sake of the School by Brazil, Angela
The Noon-Sun prayed a prairie rose To blanch for him her blossom's hue, But to the Plain all love she owes; Beneath that mother's grass she grew.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
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