4 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GELLIFLOWRE»
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gelliflowre in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in ...
... A fourteenth- to fifteenth-century Dutch version of the Circa Instans of Platear-
ius (twelfth century) has gariofels naghel. 14 Similarly shaped is the head of the
clove pink (Dianthus caryophyllus) or gillyflower, Edmund Spenser's gelliflowre.
15 ...
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Time, Landscape and the Ideal Life: Studies in the Pastoral ...
(The date of the earliest example of the name in OED is 1573.) It had the
figurative meaning : "The 'flower', or finest example of excellence ; the embodied
perfection (of some good quality)" ("Pink" sb4. 2, OED). "Gelliflowre" was
originally used ...
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The Chambers Dictionary
adv gel idly — n gel'idness or (obs) gelid ity [L gelidus, from gelu frost] gelignite
jel'ig-nil, n a powerful explosive used in mining, made from nitroglycerine,
nitrocotton. potassium nitrate and wood-pulp, [gelatine and L ignis fire] gelliflowre
...
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Spenser's pastorals: The shepheardes calender and Colin Clout
Such wordplay might explain the variants daffodilly, daffadowndilly; pensy,
paunsie, pawnce; gillyflower, gelliflowre, July-flower; flower de lice, flower delice,
and a Spenserian and Shakespearean modification, flower-de-luce. A similar line
of ...
