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lady's cushion
Also 6 Our Lady's cushion.
†a. The plant Thrift, Armeria maritima. Obs.
b. The Mossy Saxifrage, Saxifraga hypnoides.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. l. 509 That kinde of grasse whiche groweth by the sea syde, is called..in Englishe our Ladies quishion. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. clxxvii. 483 In English Thrift, Sea grasse, and our Ladies Cushion. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xix. 271 From the manner of its growth in a thick tuft, it [mossy Saxifrage] has acquired the English name of Ladies Cushion. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 201 The Lady's cushion—mossy saxifrage. |