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- noun Alternative spelling of
gillyflower .
Etymologies
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Corruption of gillyflower.
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The word was usually stressed on the first syllable in the early modern period, as the form July-flower, due to folk etymology see gamma forms at GILLYFLOWER n., implies.
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[48: a] "A Sextary of July-flower wine, and a Sextary contained about a pint and a half, sometimes more."
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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