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Ladies' slipper   /lˈeɪdˌiz slˈɪpər/   Listen
Ladies' slipper

noun
1.
Any of several chiefly American wildflowers having an inflated pouchlike lip; difficult or impossible to cultivate in the garden.  Synonyms: lady's slipper, lady-slipper, slipper orchid.






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"Ladies' slipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... white and the pink; with these I float out May like Fra Angelico. For June there are Ragged Robins like filaments of rosy cloud, and Forget-me-not to drift like wood-smoke over the chalk rubble. In July I have a pageant. Foxglove and Eglantine make melodious my woods; Ladies' Slipper gives a golden cope to the hillside, with purple campanula to wind about it like a scarf. After this—August, September, October—our uplands faint out in semitones: grey scabious, grey harebell, pale bed-straw, white meadowsweet, like the lace of an ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett



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