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

The other lady replied that she did not see any; but, looking carefully, they at last found the leaves, and there, hiding away among them, was the little sweet violet, with its delicious scent.

From Story Lessons of Character Building (Morals) and Manners by Bates, Loïs

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

"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)

I am very desirous of having the seeds of our wild primrose and sweet violet preserved for me; I long to introduce them in our meadows and gardens.

From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland