Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The pansy: an abbreviation of kiss-behind-the-garden-gate, or some other of its similar names.

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Examples

  • Then Ibrahim fared forward and found all as it had been described by the Gobbo: he also saw the garden-gate open, and in the porch a couch of ivory, whereon sat a hump backed man of pleasant presence, clad in gold-laced clothes and hending in hand a silvern mace plated with gold.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Now at this moment, the captain knocked at the garden-gate, and

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then they opened the garden-gate and cried out, and the folk came to them from all places, saying “What aileth you?”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • And again, as on the previous day, they all turned at the garden-gate, and kissed their hands — evidently to the face on the window-sill, though Barbox Brothers from his retired post of disadvantage at the corner could not see it.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • Dumay to the carriage stationed at the garden-gate, and said to

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • He showed them the garden-gate again, and locked and barred it.

    The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

  • And again, as on the previous day, they all turned at the garden-gate, and kissed their hands — evidently to the face on the window-sill, though Barbox Brothers from his retired post of disadvantage at the corner could not see it.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • But not until they had all turned at the little garden-gate, and kissed their hands to a face at the upper window: a low window enough, although the upper, for the cottage had but a story of one room above the ground.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • But not until they had all turned at the little garden-gate, and kissed their hands to a face at the upper window: a low window enough, although the upper, for the cottage had but a story of one room above the ground.

    Mugby Junction 2007

  • It was said to help him, as he stood irresolute, but evidently desiring to enter, with his diffident hand on the latch of the garden-gate.

    Mugby Junction 2007

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