sweet violet

American  

noun

1. a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.

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sweet violet

Years ago when I was in Korea to promote “Avengers,” he inked a sweet violet on my forearm.

From New York Times ● Jul. 8, 2023

She had grown paler herself; there were purple shadows under the sweet violet eyes that might have hinted of her own sleepless nights.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843 by Lincoln, Abraham

"Speak, my sweet violet, answer and tell, How you have grown up and flourished so well, And look so contented, where lonely you dwell,     And we thus by accident meet?"

From Wreaths of Friendship A Gift for the Young by Woodworth, Francis C. (Francis Channing)

The sweet violet also produces abundance of seed from its cleistogamic flowers, and few from its perfect flowers; but in Liguria it produces only perfect flowers which seed abundantly.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel