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clove pink
noun
- a pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, having a spicy scent resembling that of cloves. Compare carnation ( def 1 ).
clove pink
noun
- another name for carnation
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of clove pink1
First recorded in 1865–70
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The fragrance is described as sweet and spicy — like clove pinks or carnations.
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The pathway was unswept, the clove pinks streeling over the neat box borders.
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Some of Chicken Little’s own clove pinks, mingled 183with feathery larkspur and ribbon grass, filled a silver bowl in the center of the table.
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He threw away the green leaves of the clove pinks that his son had given him, and took the blue and silver loop from the old woman's hands.
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We were balanced precariously on a board, laid across the ash barrel, and The Seraph, losing his balance, fell headlong into a bed of clove pinks, almost at the Bishop's feet.
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