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Prince's feather
A popular name of several plants. a. London Pride (Saxifraga umbrosa). Now dial.
1629Parkinson Paradisus 234 Some of our English Gentlewomen have called it, The Princes Feather. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 91/2 Princes Feather hath the leaves invecked, the Flowers grow in branches. 1899Daily News 30 Oct. 8/3 The..London girl is looked upon with suspicion and dislike by the rustics. She is nick-named ‘Princess [sic] Feather’, the local name for the flower known as ‘London Pride’.
b. A tall handsome garden plant, Amaranthus hypochondriacus, bearing feathery spikes of small red flowers; also A. speciosus, a larger species.
1712J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. II. 166 Amaranth Flowers gentle, or Princes Feathers, are of great Variety; but the principal are, 1. The great purple Flower with a thick tall Stalk, and many Branches, large green Leaves [etc.]. 1857Henfrey Bot. §533 The species of Amaranthus, such as A. candatus, Love-lies-bleeding, and A. hypochondriacus, Prince's-feathers. 1883W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 14/1 Prince's Feather, Love-lies-bleeding... Among annuals none are more in want of judicious use and appreciation than these. 1925E. Glasgow Barren Ground i. xi. 134 A narrow path led between rows of log cabins, each with its patchwork square of garden, and its clump of gaudy prince's feather or coxcomb by the doorstep. 1974M. Allan Plants that changed our Gardens i. 41 Prince's Feather..grows up to 5 ft tall and has flower plumes of deep crimson.
c. Locally applied to other plants: see quots.
1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 164 Prunella vulgaris... In the Merse called Heart-o-the-Yearth and Prince's-Feathers. 1866Treas. Bot., Prince's feather,..also an American name for Polygonum orientale. 1886Britten & Holland Eng. Plant-n., Prince's Feather..(4) Syringa vulgaris..Dev[on], Rutl[and].., pronounced Princy Feather. |