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boy's-love A popular name for Southernwood, Artemisia Abrotonum, also called, in some districts, lad's love.
1863Kinglake Crimea II. 267 The nosegay of ‘boy's love’ that used to be set by the Prayer-Book of the Sunday maiden. 1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly xiv. 115 Stocks, pansies, boy's-love, sweet-william—used to be cultivated for their perfume. |