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pasque-flower|ˈpɑːskˌflaʊə(r), -æ-|
Forms: α. 6–7 Passe-, 7 Pas-flower. β. 6– pasque-, 7–8 pasch-flower.
[Orig. passeflower, a. F. passefleur (1539 R. Estienne) ‘a variety of anemone’ (Hatz.-Darm.); changed by Gerarde to pasque-flower, after pasque, pasch, Easter.]
A species of Anemone (A. Pulsatilla) growing on chalk downs in England, and elsewhere in Europe, blossoming in April, with bell-shaped purple flowers clothed with silky hairs. Called also pasque-anemone.
With distinctive adjuncts the name is applied to other species of Anemone, as the American pasque-flower, A. patens, var. Nuttaliana; Japanese p., the Autumnal Anemone, A. Japonica.
α1578Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxv. 422 Passeflower or the first Anemone, hath leaves like Coriander. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxiii. 309 Passe flower is called..after the Latin name Pulsatill, or Flawe flower. 1611Cotgr., Passe-fleur, the Passeflower, bastard Anemone, or Windflower. 1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 39 Poisonous things delight in the Plant called Pas-flower. 1658Phillips, Passe-flower, a certain kind of flower, otherwise called Pulsatil.
β1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxiii. 309 They flower for the most part about Easter, which hath mooved me to name it Pasque flower, or Easter flower. 1629Parkinson Paradisus 201 The yellow Pasque flower... Red Pasque flower... White Pasque flower. 1785Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxi. (1794) 301 The Pasque-flower, so called from its flowering about Easter,..adorns some of our dry chalky hills, with its beautiful bell-shaped purple flowers. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 175 The pasque-flower, purple anemone. |