Usage examples (8)

• The cuckoopint is an arum that appears in our woods in April, and is also known as lords-and-ladies, starch-root, Adam-and-Eve, bobbins and Wake Robin.
• I give you this bouquetof saxifrage sneezewortspurge ragged robinasphodel lords-and-ladies.''
• I remember my mother's horror when I ate the lords-and-ladies berries that still grow by the garden walls.
• Orchis-harlequins, cuckoo-plants, wild arums, more properly lords-and-ladies, were coming, and coming -- slowly; for had they not a long way to come, from the valley of...