| 单词 | fairy petticoats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfairy petticoats fairy petticoats n. (also fairies' petticoats) English regional (chiefly Cheshire) the foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, or its flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > foxglove foxglovec1000 London button1552 wine-pot herb1552 finger1562 finger flower1562 lady's glove1575 foxter1623 fox-finger1657 fox1684 bloody finger1789 witch bell1808 fairy fingers1811 fairy thimble1813 dead men's bells1818 witches' thimbles1820 fairy bells1821 fairy glove1841 flap-dock1846 cow-flop1847 pop-glove1847 lady's thimble1853 Scotch mercury1853 poppy1856 fairy petticoats1864 finger root1870 fairy weed1871 pop-dock1878 witches' bells1884 1864 L. H. Grindon Brit. & Garden Bot. 410 These freckled caverns are often large enough to admit the end of the finger, and being contracted at the extremity next the calyx, like a waist, have obtained the name, with the Cheshire children, of ‘Fairies' petticoats’. 1895 Current Lit. Jan. 47/1 In Cheshire its [sc. foxglove's] native name is fairy petticoats. 2006 A. Franklin Working with Fairies v. 106 The common name ‘foxglove’ may be a corruption of ‘folksglove’, the glove of the Good Folk or fairies... This has given rise to many of the plant's folk names: Fairy's Glove, Fairy's Cap, Fairy's Thimbles, Fairy Petticoats, Fairy Weed [etc.] < as lemmas |
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