love-in-idleness
English
Noun
love-in-idleness (uncountable)
- Viola tricolor, the wild pansy.
- 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115:
- The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness.
- 1974, Thomas Teal, translating Tove Jansson, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books 2003, p. 115: