Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pansy: an abbreviation of
kiss-behind-the-garden-gate , or some other of its similar names.
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Examples
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Then Ibrahim fared forward and found all as it had been described by the Gobbo: he also saw the garden-gate open, and in the porch a couch of ivory, whereon sat a hump backed man of pleasant presence, clad in gold-laced clothes and hending in hand a silvern mace plated with gold.
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Now at this moment, the captain knocked at the garden-gate, and
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Then they opened the garden-gate and cried out, and the folk came to them from all places, saying “What aileth you?”
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And again, as on the previous day, they all turned at the garden-gate, and kissed their hands — evidently to the face on the window-sill, though Barbox Brothers from his retired post of disadvantage at the corner could not see it.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Dumay to the carriage stationed at the garden-gate, and said to
Modeste Mignon 2007
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He showed them the garden-gate again, and locked and barred it.
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And again, as on the previous day, they all turned at the garden-gate, and kissed their hands — evidently to the face on the window-sill, though Barbox Brothers from his retired post of disadvantage at the corner could not see it.
Mugby Junction 2007
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But not until they had all turned at the little garden-gate, and kissed their hands to a face at the upper window: a low window enough, although the upper, for the cottage had but a story of one room above the ground.
Mugby Junction 2007
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But not until they had all turned at the little garden-gate, and kissed their hands to a face at the upper window: a low window enough, although the upper, for the cottage had but a story of one room above the ground.
Mugby Junction 2007
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It was said to help him, as he stood irresolute, but evidently desiring to enter, with his diffident hand on the latch of the garden-gate.
Mugby Junction 2007
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