snowdrop

Synonyymisanakirja: snowdrop

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Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
1722, (w), Kensington Garden, London: Printed for w:Jacob Tonson|Jacob Tonson, in the w:Strand, London|Strand, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270894685 270894685; republished in The Poems of w:Samuel Garth|Garth, and Tickell (The British Poets. Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes; XXVII), Chiswick, Middlesex: From the press of w:Charles Whittingham|Charles Whittingham, College House, 1822, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16074759 16074759, https://books.google.com/books?id=wydAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA166 page 166:

1865, (w) pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée, “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. ... In Three Volumes, London: w:Chapman & Hall|Chapman and Hall, 193, (w), (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4557613 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. ... In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: w:Tauchnitz publishers|Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/798495291 798495291, https://books.google.com/books?id=rqwzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 page 9:

(quote-book)|year=2016|isbn=978-1-78023-492-2|passage=It was considered unlucky to decorate a room with cut snowdrops. The name death's flower relates to an old belief that a solitary snowdrop indicates impending death, with suggestions that it was inauspicious to bring snowdrops indoors.
puhekieltä To stealVerb steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.
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(quote-book)|year=1992|page=50|isbn=978-1-56282-823-3|passage=‘Snowdropping’ is the business of some poor sods who, often from laundry drying on a clothes line, pinch items of ladies’ underwear, take them away and sniff them.
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