| 单词 | maiden's honesty |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmaiden's honesty maiden's honesty n. regional (southern) (now rare) traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba (cf. honesty n. 7b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > clematis or traveller's joy white vine?a1425 clematis1578 lady's bower1597 traveller's joy1597 virgin's bower1597 bethwine1609 honesty1640 love1640 maiden's honesty1691 lady bower1715 virgin-bower1725 old man's beard1731 bindwith1797 Robin Hood's feather1820 silver-bush1886 1691 J. Ray in J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 50 Calver-keys, hare's-parseley, mayden's-honesty, are countrey names unknown to me. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (1847) i. ix. 49 In this ground..wild vetch, maiden's-honesty, polypodium [etc.]. a1697 J. Aubrey Nat. Hist. Wilts. (Bodl. MS Aubrey 1) f. 107 About Michaelmas all the Hedges about Thickwood..are, (as it were hung) with Maydenshonesty: wch looks very fine. 1903 M. Reynolds Poems Anne Countess of Winchilsea Notes 427 (notes) ‘Or honesty with feather'd down.’—A local name for wild clematis, the full name being ‘Maiden's Honesty’. < as lemmas |
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