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four-leaf clover

[ fawr-leef, fohr- ]

noun

  1. a clover leaf having four leaflets instead of the usual three, purported to bring good luck.


four-leaf clover

noun

  1. a clover with four leaves rather than three, supposed to bring good luck
  2. another name for cloverleaf
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

There was a four-leaf clover, somehow mysteriously imbedded in the centre.

If Mother's eagle eye spotted a four-leaf clover, we stopped and picked it.

Again, between the terrace ledge and the forest lies a square of velvet green, abounding in four-leaf clover.

He was rather astonished to see Courtlandt kneeling in the clover-patch, hunting for a four-leaf clover.

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