NOUN
- Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors
- any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers
How To Use gillyflower In A Sentence
- There are apples for keeping, cooking, eating and the making of ciders, with names as colorful as they are various: Scollop Gillyflower, Red Winter Pearmain, Kansas Keeper.
- Apricots and gillyflowers, honey and wine are the least I can wish for my son and his beautiful new wife.
- Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets. Secrets of the Tudor Court
- They said these flowers had been picked from places far away, where wild roses, gillyflowers and many unknown yellow wild flowers were often gathered by children and women to sell to those passing by.
- Dianthus are known by numerous other names, including carnation, clove pink, cottage pink, gillyflower and pinks.
- 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 I have never succeeded in doing), long pepper (Asian groceries have this, sometimes), nutmeg, cardamon, mace. Even in a little thing
- Then the thin flake-like brown seeds of the annual Stocks or Gillyflowers; one little square of paper holds the white Princess Alice variety, so many thick double spikes of fragrant snow lie hidden in each thin dry flake! An Island Garden
