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† liriconfancy Obs.
Also 6 liricum-, liriconfancie, lyryconfancy, 7 lilly-confancy, 8 liricumphancy.
[Corruption of L. lilium convallium (see convally), influenced by fancy.]
The lily of the valley.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 49 Liricumfancie, or as other iudge May Lilie. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxvi. 178 Lyllie Conuall, is now called..in English..Lyryconfancy. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxxvii. §2. 332 It is called in English Lillie of the valley, or the Conuall Lillie, and May Lillies, and in some places Liriconfancie. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xii. 24 It [Lily of the Valley] is called..in some places, Liriconfancy or Lilly-Confancy. 1746Poor Robin, an Almanac A 8 b (May), The Honey-suckle, Rosemary, Liricumphancy, Rose-parsley,..Which do this Month adorn each Field. 1755Johnson, Liriconfancy, a flower. |