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n. - Shrubby perennial of the Canary Islands having white flowers and leaves and hairy stems covered with dustlike down.

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  • Bustling into the dining-room, moving each glass a quarter of an inch, rushing back with resolution implacable on her face her gray and silver-lace party frock protected...
  • The ninety pound ingénue, withholding her silver-lace flouncings from the raw edges of moving landscape, high-stepped to a rearward dressing room; the khaki clad hero...
  • Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again: which is new to me, and that which
  • Mayds of Honour, all in silver-lace gowns again: which is new to me, and that which I did not think would have been brought up again.
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