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harebell, hare-bell|ˈhɛəbɛl|
Also 7–8 hare's-bell, 9 hairbell.
[f. hare n. + bell: perh. as growing in places frequented by hares.]
1. The wild hyacinth, Scillanutans: = blue-bell 2.
1387–8Compotus of Mary C'tess of Derby 2 P' armilaus domine et capucio broid' cum harebells. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 713/9 Hec bursa pastoris, harebelle. 1597Gerarde Herbal 99 The blew Harebels or English Jacint is very common throughout all England. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 222 The azur'd Hare-bell, like thy Veines. 1613–16W Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii, The Hare-bell..for her stainless azure blue, Claims to be worn of none but those are true. 1620Parkinson Paradisi ii. xi. 122 Our English Iacinth or Hares-bels is so common euery where, that it scarce needeth any description. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 13 The ground was strewed with violets, hare-bells, and pansies. 1802Trans. Soc. Arts XX. 203 The root of the Hyacinthus non scriptus, the plant commonly called Blue-Bells, or Hare-Bells. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n.
2. The Round-leaved Bell-flower, Campanula rotundifolia: = blue-bell 1.
(This application appears to have arisen in Scotland, where the Campanula is much more abundant than the wild hyacinth. Sometimes, with reference to the slender stalk, altered to hairbell, which Lindley tried to establish in this sense, leaving harebell to its original use in sense 1. Originally, in English use, ‘Blue-Bell’ was Campanula, ‘Hare-bell’ was Scilla, ‘Hair-bell’ non-existent.)
1765Mickle Sir Martyn i. (R.), On Desmond's mouldering turrets slowly shake The trembling rie-grass, and the hare-bell blue. 1790Burns Elegy Henderson v, Mourn little harebells, o'er the lee. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xviii, E'en the slight hare-bell raised its head, Elastic from her airy tread. 1810Southey Kehama vii. vii, Gently as the dews of night that gem And do not bend the hare-bell's slenderest stem. 1866Treas. Bot. 208/2 Campanula rotundifolia, Hare-bell, or..Hair-bell, the Blue-bell of Scotland. a1882Whittier To ― 5 Poet. Wks. 162 Banks inclined, With trembling harebells hung.
3. attrib., as harebell blue.
1909Daily Chron. 15 June 7/5 The dress linens..have been prepared in many exquisite shades of leaf-green, pale primrose, hare-bell blue. 1925T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. iii. xvi. 647 His harebell eyes showing only cold..practical logic. 1940C. Day Lewis Poems in Wartime 8 This hare⁓bell height of calm. Ibid. 9 The climb To a tremulous, hare-bell crest. 1969R. Godden In this House of Brede (1970) i. 39 Dame Veronica of the wistful hare-bell blue eyes. |