| 单词 | saviour's flannel |
| 释义 | > as lemmassaviour's flannel saviour's flannel n. now rare (also more fully our saviour's flannel) any of several plants which have hairy or downy leaves; esp. viper's bugloss ( Echium vulgare), great mullein ( Verbascum thapsus), and lamb's ears ( Stachys byzantina). ΚΠ 1880 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Our Lord's Flannel, or Our Saviour's Flannel, (1) Echium vulgare, L.—Kent... (2) Verbascum Thapsus, L.—Kent. 1900 A. E. P. Dowling Flora of Sacred Nativity 74 Verbascum... It's thick leaves are called in Kent ‘Our Saviour's Flannel’ as if in memory of the swaddling bands of the Christmas Night. 1927 V. Woolf Diary 4 July (1980) III. 144 They [sc. slightly furred cheeks] are like saviours flannel, of which she picked me a great bunch, in texture. 2008 B. Damrosch Garden Primer (rev. ed.) iv.120/2 Stachys lanata is variously called lamb's ears, woolly betony, and Saviour's flannel. < as lemmas |
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