Quaker-ladies

[ kwey-ker-ley-deez ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)

1. bluet ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of Quaker-ladies¹

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75

Example Sentences

No; it was quaker-ladies, and they were blue as Sally’s eyes.

From Project Gutenberg

Picture dog-tooth violets, spring beauties, bellwort, Quaker-ladies, and great tufts of violets, shading from white to deepest blue, in such a setting!

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Her sisters bring the gifts—Spring, wind-flowers, Solomon's-Seal, Dutchman's-breeches, Quaker-ladies, and trailing arbutus, that smells as divinely as the true May.

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There we tied the horse, and under the great trees we found in spring arbutus, even beneath the snow, and later fetched thence turkey-foot ferns, and wild honeysuckle, and quaker-ladies, with jack-in-the-pulpits and fearful gray corpse-lights hid away in the darker woods.

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