love-in-idleness

noun

1. another name for the wild pansy

Example Sentences

It’s ”a little western flower, / Before milk-white, now purple with love’s wound, / And maidens call it love-in-idleness,” he explains.

From Salon

The lines on “The Flower” were the result of an investigation of the “love-in-idleness” growing on a wall in the Farringford garden.

From Project Gutenberg

Stocks, red-hot-pokers, larkspur, polyanthus, peonies and dahlias caught the eye which was lured back to the humbler beauties of mignonette, forget-me-not, love-in-idleness, and a generous profusion of roses.

From Project Gutenberg

But during the day which followed Geoffrey's conscience awoke and reproached him for this love-in-idleness, and as the evening of that day drew near his higher self conquered.

From Project Gutenberg

Four lovers, two young Athenians of high birth and their sweethearts, are almost inextricably tangled by careless Robin Goodfellow, who has dropped the juice of love-in-idleness upon the eyes of the wrong lovers.

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