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prunella
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prunella \Pru*nel"la\, Prunello \Pru*nel"lo\, n. [F. prunelle, probably so called from its color resembling that of prunes. See Prune, n.] A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
Prunella \Pru*nel"la\, n. [NL., perhaps from G. br[ae]une quinsy, croup.] (Med.)
Angina, or angina pectoris.
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Thrush.
Prunella salt (Old Chem.), niter fused and cast into little balls.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stout textile used for men's robes and gowns, 1650s, from French prunelle, noun use of adjective meaning "plum-colored," from prunelle, diminutive of prune "plum" (see prune (n.)).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Any member of the genus ''Prunella'' of herbaceous plants, the allheals. Etymology 2
n. 1 (context medicine English) angina, or angina pectoris 2 (context medicine English) thrush Etymology 3
n. A smooth woollen stuff, generally black, formerly used for making shoes and clergymen's gowns; a kind of lasting.
Wikipedia
Prunella is a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Lamiaceae, also known as self-heals, heal-all, or allheal for their use in herbal medicine.
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Prunella may refer to:
- Prunella (bird), also known as accentors or dunnocks
- Prunella (plant), also known as self-heal
- Prunella (grape), French wine grape also known as Cinsaut
- "Prunella" (fairy tale), an Italian fairy tale
- Prunella (1918 film), 1918 silent film starring Marguerite Clark
- Prunella (given name)
- Prunella (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare
- Bargnolino (or sometimes prunella), Italian sloe gin, from Prunus spinosa (blackthorn, or sloe)
Prunella is an Italian fairy tale. Andrew Lang included it The Grey Fairy Book. It is Aarne-Thompson type 310, the Maiden in the Tower. A version of the tale also appears in A Book of Witches, by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
Italo Calvino included a variant Prezzemolina in his Italian Folktales. He took a variant from Florence, but noted that variants were found over all of Italy. The captor who demands his captive to do impossible tasks, and the person, usually the captor's child, who helps with them, is a very common fairy tale theme -- Nix Nought Nothing, The Battle of the Birds, The Grateful Prince, or The Master Maid—but this tale unusually makes the captive a girl and the person the captor's son.
Prunella is a feminine given name. The name is derived from the Latin for plum.
The usual diminutive or short form is Pru or Prue. These may also be short for the unrelated name Prudence.
Prunella is a 1918 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur. The film is based on the 1906 play Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker, and stars Marguerite Clark in the title role. Clark also starred in the 1913 Winthrop Ames produced Broadway stage production on which the film is based. The majority of the film is considered lost, with only fragments still in existence.
Prunella (1788 – December 1811) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse. Raced from 1791 to 1794, she won three races including a Sweepstakes of 200 guineas each at Newmarket. She was retired to stud and became an influential broodmare, foaling Epsom Derby winner Pope and Epsom Oaks winner Pelisse. Her daughters also went on to become top broodmares in their own right. She was owned by Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.
Usage examples of "prunella".
Around her were the blue flowers softly waving to and fro, and beyond the gleaming patches of the cistus flowers and the red centaury, while the sweet scent of the brown blossoms and of the fragrant prunella enveloped her as she sat.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
I am sure that in summer he certainly went around in bright prunella bootikins with mother-of-pearl buttons at the side.
Several Herbal Simples go by the name of Selfheal among our wild hedge plants, more especially the Sanicle, the common Prunella, and the Bugle.
The Bugle, or middle Comfrey, is also a Sanicle, because of its excellence for healing wounds, in common with the Prunella and the true Sanicle.
There were velvets, lawns, percales, soft woofs, mohair, swansdown, shalloon, prunella, tammy, tulle, organdy, crepe, the delicate French laces.
Out of the platform grew an apple tree, and tied to it was his own daughter, Prunella, while grouped around her in various attitudes of woe were the other Crabapple Blossoms.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
Around her were the blue flowers softly waving to and fro, and beyond the gleaming patches of the cistus flowers and the red centaury, while the sweet scent of the brown blossoms and of the fragrant prunella enveloped her as she sat.
If Paul Farnam doesn't serve some fool in less than ninety days and prove him a carnal correspondent in court within that time, your Prunella is off the hook, and more important, so's my senior deputy.
I'll get word to Prunella Farnam later and save you the trouble and considerable risk of running back up yonder to warn her they'll be riding hard on her with spiteful intent.