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- noun Plural form of
heartsease .
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Examples
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The pretty garden was there just as usual, a bed of heartseases was blooming in the sunshine, and the stocks and forget-me-nots were in full flower.
Christie's Old Organ Or, "Home, Sweet Home" O. F. Walton 1894
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The King made a present to Cavour, as a souvenir of the event, of a ring representing two heartseases.
The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891
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Great cabbage roses hung heavy-headed splendours towards purple-black heartseases, and thin-filmed silvery pods of honesty; tall white lilies mingled with the blossoms of currant bushes, and at their feet the narcissi of old classic legend pressed their warm-hearted paleness into the plebeian thicket of the many-striped gardener's garters.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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