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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Peace of mind.
- noun A small European plant (Viola tricolor) having spurred flowers marked with purple, yellow, and white. It was used to develop hybrid varieties of cultivated pansies.
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- noun A
common European wild flower,Viola tricolor ; the wildpansy .
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Examples
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I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.
Gardening. Spinningfishwife 2009
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I've also put in a small strawberry patch and some heartsease.
Archive 2009-05-01 Spinningfishwife 2009
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I have, also, reason to believe that humble-bees are indispensableto the fertilisation of the heartsease (Violatricolor), for other beesfo not visit this flower.
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Straying further, my eye was attracted by the sight of some heartsease that peeped through the rocks.
Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark 2003
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The flowers were familiar, blooms I had known in England: golden and purple heartsease, little blue forget-me-nots.
QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000
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The heady floral scent of rose and heartsease, plus the spice of yemonja root.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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The heady floral scent of rose and heartsease, plus the spice of yemonja root.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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Oh, is there any heartsease left, or any rosemary?
The Verse-Book of a Homely Woman Fay Inchfawn
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Hadria carried still the drooping yellow heartsease that the little girl had given her.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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Little Martha ran up and offered her a wild heartsease which she had found on one of the graves.
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
chained_bear commented on the word heartsease
"What infinite heartsease must kings neglect that private men enjoy?" --William Shakespeare, Henry V (unless it's Henry VI...)
February 5, 2007
grant_barrett commented on the word heartsease
This word was chosen as Wordnik word of the day.
November 11, 2009