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periwinkles

n. (plural of periwinkle English)

Usage examples of "periwinkles".

Light broths became soups, and soon after that she could eat chicken stewed in wine, fish soup, and periwinkles cooked up with peas.

The spring advances rapidly, multitudes of primroses, dog-violets, periwinkles, stitchwort.

Coel led me to a spot underneath a stand of young ash trees, and we sat among the periwinkles and columbines that grew there.

He saw tiny crabs scuttling among the stones, and periwinkles clinging motionless to the bottom, as if patiently awaiting the next high tide.

Egdon are allowed to keep flowers in their cells, and often risk severe reprimand by stooping to pick pimpernels and periwinkles on their way from work.