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  • noun Plural form of gillyflower.

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Examples

  • Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Sometimes, looking out across all that open space, a vista filled with cowslips, daisies, and gillyflowers, I found it difficult to remember that I was only a few miles from the center of London.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Sometimes, looking out across all that open space, a vista filled with cowslips, daisies, and gillyflowers, I found it difficult to remember that I was only a few miles from the center of London.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Sometimes, looking out across all that open space, a vista filled with cowslips, daisies, and gillyflowers, I found it difficult to remember that I was only a few miles from the center of London.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • Sometimes, looking out across all that open space, a vista filled with cowslips, daisies, and gillyflowers, I found it difficult to remember that I was only a few miles from the center of London.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • I was sitting here, admiring the gillyflowers, telling you of Mother, when a knock came at the door.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

  • The pink gillyflowers beneath my window are in bloom, filling the room with their sweet and heady scent.

    The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

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