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ˈcorn-flower
The name given to various plants commonly found growing amongst corn; spec. a. the common bluebottle, Centaurea Cyanus; b. the corn-rose or common wild poppy; c. the corn-cockle; d. golden corn-flower or yellow cornflower: the corn-marigold.
1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xii. 161 This floure [Blew bottell] may also be called Hurte Sicle, and Cornefloure. 1597Gerarde Herbal ccxl. 591 Of Blewe Bottle, or Corne flower. Ibid. ccxliv. §2. 606 These plants are called..in English Corne Marigold, yellow Corne flower, and golden Corne flower. 1599A. M. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 73/1 Adde as much water of blewe cornflowers. 1626Bacon Sylva §482 There be certain Corn-flowers which come seldome or never in other places..but onely amongst Corn: As the blew Bottle, a kind of Yellow Mary-Gold, Wilde Poppy and Fumitory. 1879Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 37 The common but beautiful cornflower (Centaurea cyanus). 1885E. Peacock in Academy 26 Sept. 204/2 Of the sunlight yellow and corn-flowers red.
e. The blue colour of the corn-flower: a fashion shade. Also attrib.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 339/2 Velvet crêpe paper..in the following colours..dark coral, cornflower, [etc.]. 1907B. M. Croker Company's Servant xxix. 301 Her cornflower-blue parasol. 1911L. J. Vance Cynthia 255 Its colour an incredible, nitid blue like the blue of a corn⁓flower sapphire. 1940L. Macneice Last Ditch 25 His eyes a cornflower blue. 1963New Yorker 1 June 112/3 (Advt.), In rich pastels—cherry, coral, cornflower. |