† jaunetten.
Obsolete.
flower jaunette n. (also flower janet, jonet flower) a name originally applied to some yellow flowers, as marsh-marigold, yellow water-lily, and species of St. John's wort (see Cotgrave, Jaulnette); afterwards vaguely extended to other flowers, including apparently the Red Campion or Scarlet Lychnis.
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1423 Kingis Quair xlvii The plumys eke like to the floure-Ionettis.
1480 W. Caxton tr. Ovid Metamorphoses xiii. iv Of hys bloode grewe a flour iaunette lyke unto the lylye, sauf of colour.
1570 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xv. 13 Ȝe Baselik and Ionet flouris, Ȝe Gerofleis so sweit.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxxv. 39 Hir comelie cheeks of vive colour Of rid and vhyt ymixt Ar lyk the sanguene jonet flour Into the lillie fixt.
1673 Wedderburn Gloss. 18 Caryophyllata, a janet-flower.
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