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lady's mantle
Also 6 Our Ladies, 6–8 ladies.
[lady n. 3; cf. G. Frauen-, Marienmantel.]
A common name for the rosaceous herb Alchemilla vulgaris. Also applied, with qualification, to other species (see quot. 1864).
1548Turner Names of Herbes 82 Alchimilla..is called in english our Ladies Mantel or syndow. 1578Lyte Dodoens i. xcviii. 140 Great Sanicle or Ladies Mantell, groweth in some places of this countrey. 1611Cotgr., Alchimille, Lions foot, Ladies mantle, great Sanicle. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xv. 167 Ladies mantle has a calyx of one permanent leaf divided into eight segments. 1864Sowerby Brit. Bot. (ed. 3) III. 140 Silvery Lady's-Mantle. Ibid. 141 Alpine Lady's Mantle. 1882Gd. Words 673 Silken Alpine lady's mantle rare. |