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wall-flower en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wallflower.
   alt of wallflower
   • The wall-flower—the wall-flower! How beautiful it blooms' It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs; 1829, Alaric Alexander Watts, The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry:
   • The upper part of the wall was more gaudily attired, in all the variations of green moss, yellow and blue creepers, and the dark red of the wall-flower. 1835, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, The Christian Lady’s magazine, page 2:
   • A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting. 1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; […], volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C[harles] Whittingham, […]; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, column 1:

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