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strawberry leaf
The leaf of the strawberry plant. Also, † the plant itself (obs.). Also attrib.
[c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 350 Streawberᵹean leaf.] c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 558/28 Fraga, fraser, streberilef. 1548Turner Names Herbes 38 Fragraria is called in english a strawbery leafe, whose fruite is called in englishe a strawbery. 1893Morning Post 8 Mar. 8/2 Another rosaceous pest is the little strawberry-leaf beetle.
b. In allusion to the row of conventional figures of the leaf on the coronet of a duke, marquis, or earl.
1827Moore New Creation of Peers 32 If coronets glistened with pills 'stead of pearls, And the strawberry-leaves were by rhubarb supplanted! 1844Disraeli Coningsby v. iii, Who, if he carried the county and the manufacturing borough also, merited the strawberry-leaf. 1875J. Grant One of Six Hundred iv. 32 It was among the strawberry leaves she chiefly expected to find a husband for her daughter—a marquis at least.
Hence strawberry-leaved a.
1894K. Grahame Pagan Papers 107 Duchesses..rapt..from their strawberry-leaved surroundings. 1883Ld. R. Gower Remin. I. v. 71 The ducal strawberry-leaved land. |