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four-leaf clover
[ fawr-leef, fohr- ]
noun
- a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.
four-leaf clover
noun
- a clover with four leaves rather than three, supposed to bring good luck
- another name for cloverleaf
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Word History and Origins
Origin of four-leaf clover1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
In the cake put a gold penny, a silver four-leaf clover, and a little image or amulet to drive away bad luck.
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There was a four-leaf clover, somehow mysteriously imbedded in the centre.
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If Mother's eagle eye spotted a four-leaf clover, we stopped and picked it.
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Again, between the terrace ledge and the forest lies a square of velvet green, abounding in four-leaf clover.
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He was rather astonished to see Courtlandt kneeling in the clover-patch, hunting for a four-leaf clover.
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