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Periwinkle

noun

Chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers.

Commonly cultivated Old World woody herb having large pinkish to red flowers. Synonyms: Cape periwinkle, Catharanthus roseus, cayenne jasmine, Madagascar periwinkle, old maid, red periwinkle, rose periwinkle, Vinca rosea.

Small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked. Synonym: winkle.

Edible marine gastropod. Synonym: winkle.

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"Periwinkle" Quotes from Famous Books

... able to help laughing. He must have looked like a periwinkle stuck in his shell. Go and tell him you're very sorry, ...

— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn

... affected him with a touch of horror. She sat down opposite him, and her beautifully shapen legs, in frail, goldish stockings, seemed to glisten metallic naked, thrust from out of the wonderful, wonderful skin, like periwinkle-blue velvet. She had tapestry shoes, blue and gold: and almost one could see her toes: metallic naked. The gold-threaded gauze slipped at her side. Aaron could not help watching the naked-seeming arch of her foot. It was as if she were dusted with dark ...

— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

... us. There were two kinds of wampum, the blue and the white. The Montauks to this day know that there is a difference between the two. The blue came from our clam. The white, which was the product of the periwinkle, did not need so much labor to fit it for use as wampum, and it was cheaper. The blue was the gold; the white was the silver. One blue bead was worth two white ones. The Indians did not try to keep up any parity of the beads. ...

— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various

... that sweet bower, The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the ...

— English Literature For Boys And Girls • H.E. Marshall

... perhaps," Colonel CALICOT said— As down the small garden he pensively led— (Though once I could see his sublime forehead wrinkle With rage not to find there the loved periwinkle)— "'T was here he received from the fair D'EPINAY, (Who call'd him so sweetly HER BEAR, every day), That dear flannel petticoat, pull'd off to form A waistcoat ...

— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton

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