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Provins|prɔvɛ̃s|
The name of a French town, thirty miles east of Melun, used attrib. to designate a variety of Rosa gallica, formerly known as Rosa provincialis, the apothecary's red rose, which has long been cultivated there. Cf. province rose s.v. province 10.
1837T. Rivers Rose Amateur's Guide 11 In France, this [sc. Rosa gallica] is called the ‘Provins Rose’. 1902Jekyll & Mawley Roses for Eng. Gardens ii. 13 These two names, Provence and Provins, for two classes of garden rose..are so much alike... Provence is the Cabbage Rose (R. centifolia); Provins is Rosa gallica, the garden kinds being mostly striped. 1955C. C. Hurst in G. S. Thomas Old Shrub Roses ix. 61 The Provins Roses were also much appreciated in India and in England. 1978J. Harkness Roses xiii. 173 It [sc. Rosa gallica officinalis] is also known as the Apothecary's Rose, a reference to its uses in medicine, and as the Provins rose, because that French town specialized in making conserves and medicine from it. |