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Virginia stock   /vərdʒˈɪnjə stɑk/   Listen
Virginia stock

noun
1.
Erect branching herb cultivated for its loose racemes of fragrant white or pink or red or lilac flowers; native to sands and sea cliffs of southwestern Greece and southern Albania.  Synonyms: Malcolmia maritima, Virginian stock.





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... exists in the old Franco-Spanish-Afro-Italian-American city of New Orleans, there would seem to be nothing left to be desired as "material." The artist who seized instinctively this opportunity was born at New Orleans on October 12th, 1844, of colonial Virginia stock on the one side, and New England on the other. His early life was full of vicissitudes, and he was over thirty before he discovered story-telling to be his true vocation. From that time he has diligently followed it, having published three ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 • Various
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