Love-in-idleness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived
pink of my John; wild pansy; Johnny-jump-up; Viola tricolor; heartsease.
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(Bot.) , a kind of violet; the small pansy.A little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound; And maidens call it love-in-idleness. Shak.