Queen Anne's lace
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Queen Anne's lace
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Everyone in her group was laden with two or three cone-shaped bundles — a couple dozen each of ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, Queen Anne’s lace, spray roses and large roses in ivory and white.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
Before long it bloomed with poppies, buttercups and Queen Anne's lace.
From Scientific American • Sep. 1, 2023
Roadside weeds like wild mustard and Queen Anne’s lace, tendrils of palm inflorescence and carnivorous cobra lilies have all found a place in her work.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2020
The field where Melville grew pumpkins and corn for his horse and cow is a meadow, wild with violets, irises, daisies, clover, bee balm, Queen Anne’s lace, vetch, and chickweed.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
We waded through Queen Anne’s lace and thick-stalked purple flowers, into dragonflies and the smell of Carolina jasmine so thick I could almost see it circling in the air like golden smoke.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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