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clove pink
noun
a pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, having a spicy scent resembling that of cloves.
clove pink
noun
another name for carnation
Word History and Origins
Origin of clove pink1
Example Sentences
The fragrance is described as sweet and spicy — like clove pinks or carnations.
The pathway was unswept, the clove pinks streeling over the neat box borders.
Some of Chicken Little’s own clove pinks, mingled 183with feathery larkspur and ribbon grass, filled a silver bowl in the center of the table.
He threw away the green leaves of the clove pinks that his son had given him, and took the blue and silver loop from the old woman's hands.
We were balanced precariously on a board, laid across the ash barrel, and The Seraph, losing his balance, fell headlong into a bed of clove pinks, almost at the Bishop's feet.
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