| 单词 | edelweiss-lace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasedelweiss-lace An Alpine plant, Gnaphalium Leontopodium or Leontopodium alpinum, remarkable for its white flower, growing in rocky places, often scarcely accessible, on the Swiss mountains. Also attributive, as in edelweiss-lace. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > edelweiss lion's paw1591 lion-cudweed1597 edelweiss1862 1862 R. W. Emerson Thoreau in Wks. (1906) III. 339 It is called by..the Swiss Edelweiss, which signifies Noble Purity. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 21 I knew an Alpine-rose which all beside named Edelweiss. 1882 Charles Lowder 356 A..cross of edelweis had been placed on the coffin. 1884 Daily News 10 Nov. 2/7 Perhaps the most successful rival of Nottingham goods is the German-Swiss Edelweiss lace. < as lemmas |
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