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love-lies-(a)-bleeding
The garden-plant Amaranthus caudatus, having a long drooping purplish-red spike of bloom.
Also applied dial. to some other plants (see E.D.D. and W. Som. Gloss.).
[c1610Beaum. & Fl. (title) Philaster, or Love lies a Bleeding.] 1664S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 57 Princes-feathers. Otherwise called, My Love lieth a bleeding. 1665Rea Flora ii. ix. 185 This [Amaranthus] is..called by some Country women, Love lies a bleeding. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 318. 1809 Campbell O'Connor's Child xvi, And cherish, for my warrior's sake—‘The flower of love lies bleeding’. 1842Wordsw. Love lies bleeding 1 You call it ‘Love lies bleeding’,—so you may, Though the red Flower, not prostrate, only droops. |