cornflowern.
The name given to various plants commonly found growing amongst corn; spec.
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a. the common bluebottle, Centaurea Cyanus.
b. the corn-rose or common wild poppy.
c. the corn-cockle.
d. golden or yellow cornflower: the corn-marigold.
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yellow-bottlea1400
golden cornflower1578
marigold1578
corn-marigold1597
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xii. 161 This floure [Blew bottell] may also be called Hurte Sicle, and Cornefloure.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 591 Of Blewe Bottle, or Corne flower.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 606 These plants are called..in English Corne Marigold, yellow Corne flower, and golden Corne flower.
1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 73/1 Adde as much water of blewe cornflowers.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §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.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 37 The common but beautiful cornflower (Centaurea cyanus).
1885 E. Peacock in Academy 26 Sept. 204/2 Of the sunlight yellow and cornflowers red.
e. The blue colour of the cornflower: a fashion shade. Also attributive.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > [noun] > other blues
blue-green1659
water blue1723
king's blue1778
garter-blue1792
smalt-blue1794
pencil blue1815
stone-bluea1855
azuline1864
night-blue1868
canard1872
Labrador blue1873
electric1882
chasseur-blue1900
cornflower1907
petrol blue1913
larkspur1927
petrol1927
flow-blue1961
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 339/2 Velvet crêpe paper..in the following colours..dark coral, cornflower, [etc.].
1907 B. M. Croker Company's Servant xxix. 301 Her cornflower-blue parasol.
1911 L. J. Vance Cynthia 255 Its colour an incredible, nitid blue like the blue of a corn~flower sapphire.
1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 25 His eyes a cornflower blue.
1963 New Yorker 1 June 112/3 (advt.) In rich pastels—cherry, coral, cornflower.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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