LOVE-IN-IDLENESS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Love-in-idleness

/ləv-ɪn-ˈaɪdəlnəs/ Listen

Love-in-idleness

noun

A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived. Synonyms: heartsease, Johnny-jump-up, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy.

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"Love-in-idleness" Quotes from Famous Books

... then, I knew nothing of the black-beetles. Besides, names of houses are for the world outside; not that anybody passes to see ours. Didn't Mrs. Digby insist on calling their new house 'Love-in-Idleness,' though everybody knew that that wretch Digby was always beating her? Still, when folks read 'Rose Cottage' on the wall, they seldom think of the lots of thorns that are inside. In this world, Mr. Caudle, names are sometimes quite as good ...

— Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures • Douglas Jerrold

Words linked to "Love-in-idleness" : viola, Viola tricolor, wild pansy, pink of my John