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单词 gold flower
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gold flowern.1

Brit. /ˈɡəʊl(d) ˌflaʊə/, U.S. /ˈɡoʊl(d) ˌflaʊər/
Forms: see gold n.2 and flower n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: gold n.2, flower n.
Etymology: < gold n.2 + flower n. Compare earlier gold-bloom at gold n.2 Compounds 1 and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry.
1. The common or pot marigold, Calendula officinalis. Now historical.
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sun's flower1568
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pot marigold1760
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a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 162 Cy crest la flur de surcye [glossed] golde-flurs (solicle).
?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 310 Þe golde-flour is good to sene.
1919 Jrnl. Internat. Garden Club 3 359 The latter flower [sc. the marigold] was originally the Gold or the Gold flower, the ‘Spouse of the Sun’.
1922 E. Singleton Shakespeare Garden 191 Another old English name for the marigold was ruddes and a prettier one was the gold-flower.
1966 M. R. Krythe All about Months 180 It [sc. the marigold] was termed the ‘Bride of the Sun’, ‘Gold Flower’, and ‘Shining Herb’.
2007 G. Egan Shakespeare Edinb. Critical Guides 235 The word ‘gules’ is an heraldic term for red, but it was also an eighteenth-century spelling of ‘gold’ meaning marigold, the gold-flower.
2. British regional. The corn marigold, Glebionis segetum, or the ox-eye daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare. rare.
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1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 64/1 Gull-flooer, yellow gowan or marguerite, ox-eye daisy.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 123/1 Gold flower, corn marigold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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