Lexicographical Neighbors of Laylock
Literary usage of Laylock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"to a child; " I call it French laylock," said of the Red Valerian. ... so Max
Muller remarks, •' Roonie and chancy, laylock, and goold, have but lately been ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"laylock is a North-County provincialism for lilac ; but was the former ever the
correct or ... 1837 That young woman with the laylock dress on to her. ..."
3. A Glossary of Words Used in South-west Lincolnshire: (Wapentake of Graffoe) by Robert Eden George Cole (1886)
"to a child ; " I call it French laylock," said of the Red Valerian. ... so Max
Müller remarks, •' Roome and chancy, laylock, and goold, have but lately been ..."
4. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"Walter Savage Landor, when laylock had become antiquated, still clung to the
word, and used it with a stubborn persistence such as he alone could compass, ..."
5. Old-time Gardens, Newly Set Forth: A Book of the Sweet O' the Year by Alice Morse Earle (1901)
"Walter Savage Landor, when laylock had become antiquated, still clung to the
word, and used it with a stubborn persistence such as he alone could compass, ..."
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