edelweissn.
/ˈeɪdlvʌɪs/, U.S. /ˈeɪdlˌwaɪs/, /ˈeɪdlˌvaɪs/ An Alpine plant, Gnaphalium Leontopodium or Leontopodium alpinum, remarkable for its white flower, growing in rocky places, often scarcely accessible, on the Swiss mountains. Also attributive, as in edelweiss-lace.
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edelweiss1862
1862 R. W. Emerson Thoreau in Wks. (1906) III. 339 It is called by..the Swiss Edelweiss, which signifies Noble Purity.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 21 I knew an Alpine-rose which all beside named Edelweiss.
1882 Charles Lowder 356 A..cross of edelweis had been placed on the coffin.
1884 Daily News 10 Nov. 2/7 Perhaps the most successful rival of Nottingham goods is the German-Swiss Edelweiss lace.
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