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Answer for the clue "Evergreen herb (that's for remembrance) ", 8 letters:
rosemary

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Word definitions for rosemary in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rosemary \Rose"ma*ry\, n. [OE. rosmarine, L. rosmarinus; ros dew (cf. Russ. rosa, Lith. rasa, Skr. rasa juice) + marinus marine: cf. F. romarin. In English the word has been changed as if it meant the rose of Mary. See Marine .] A labiate shrub ( Rosmarinus ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a shrub that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfume.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., earlier rosmarine (c.1300), from Latin rosmarinus , literally "dew of the sea" (compare French romarin ), from ros "dew" + marinus (see marine (adj.)). Perhaps so called because it grew near coasts. Form altered in English by influence of rose ...

Usage examples of rosemary.

West systematically abused his daughter, as determined to subjugate her as he had been to subjugate Rosemary Letts.

Gagged, tied and hanging naked by her ankles, Lynda Gough was abused sexually by both Frederick and Rosemary West.

So, though Rosemary West may have physically abused him, neither she nor her husband were anxious to relinquish Steven McAvoy once he was in her hands.

Indeed, it is more than likely that the first person to be suspended from the beams in the cellar of 25 Cromwell Street and sexually abused was Rosemary West herself, and that she and her husband then decided to subject other people to the experience.

It is certain that Carol Ann Cooper was abused sexually by both Frederick and Rosemary West.

Miss A had almost certainly told Graham Letts that she had been abused by her father and her brother at the age of twelve, and she may well have told Rosemary West exactly the same thing during their conversations in Cromwell Street.

Brook Community Home to find her way to Cromwell Street, nor was she the last to be brutally abused there by Frederick and Rosemary West.

Rosemary West, too, was interviewed by the police, and she insisted throughout that she had never sexually abused her children.

Rosemary West, too, was the daughter of a dominant and abusive father, a man whose actions she also idealised.

Thus, all the while that Galileo was inventing modern physics, teaching mathematics to princes, discovering new phenomena among the planets, publishing science books for the general public, and defending his bold theories against establishment enemies, he was also buying thread for Suor Luisa, choosing organ music for Mother Achillea, shipping gifts of food, and supplying his homegrown citrus fruits, wine, and rosemary leaves for the kitchen and apothecary at San Matteo.

Cervantes, Don Quixote By the time of their tenth wedding anniversary in January 1982, Frederick and Rosemary West were consumed by an evil, all-pervading lust.

She stole to the graveyard to pray her silent prayers over her weaving: aster, asphodel, rosemary, and rue, each bound into a chaplet tied with three strands of her silvery hair.

Each swan extended her neck, then plunged it delicately beneath a garland to emerge crowned with asphodels and aster, rosemary and rue .

Beside the rosemary, tarragon, and sage, a few bees still worked the bright blue borage flowers nodding from their sturdy stems.

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