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Heather   /hˈɛðər/   Listen
Heather

noun
1.
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.  Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, ling, Scots heather.
2.
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color.  Synonym: heather mixture.



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"Heather" Quotes from Famous Books



... red-blossomed heather, Their green banners kissing the pure mountain air, Heads erect, eyes to front, stepping proudly together, Sure freedom sits throned in each proud spirit there! Down the hills twining, Their blessed ...
— Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century • James Richard Joy

... caravan-track between Shiraz and Khaneh Zinian, where we rested the first night. The towers are apparently of great antiquity, and must formerly have served for purposes of defence. We lunched at the foot of one on a breezy upland, with pink and white heather growing freely around, and a brawling, tumbling mountain stream at our feet. It was like a bit of Scotland or North Wales. The tower was in a state of decay and roofless, but a wandering tribe of ragged Eeliauts had ...
— A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistan • Harry De Windt

... over, we strolled out along the common, through heather which as yet was a mere brown expanse of flowerless undergrowth, and copses which overhead were a canopy of golden oak-leaf, and carpeted underneath with primroses and the young up-curling bracken. Presently ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... dyed with bark of alder for black, bark of willow for flesh colour. A lichen growing on stones supplied their violets and crimson.[311] The lichen on the birch-tree gives a good brown; heather gives red, purple, ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... when the | gloamin comes, Low in the | heather blooms. Sweet will thy | welcome and | bed of love | be. Emblem of | happiness, Blest is thy | dwelling-place; O! to a |-bide in the | desert with ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown


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