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n. - Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; Any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers.

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  • “Not of course at all!” replied Francie, who used a particularly expensive essence of gillyflower herself.
  • He knew gillyflower tea from the Temple, where it occasionally appeared with the morning bread, and it did seem to wake him up when he felt a little foggy or sleepy.
  • A very pretty picture was she, reader. -- with such a face as you sometimes see painted in those wayside shrines of sunny Italy, where the lamp burns pale at evening, and...
  • Add lesser quantities (the recipe says a denier) of the following spices: galingale, cloves (no more than 1/2 teaspoon, I suggest), gillyflower (if you can get it, which...
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