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English
Noun
passion-flower (plural passion-flowers)
- Alternative form of passionflower
1824, Joh[ann] Bapt[ist] von Spix, C[arl] F[riedrich] Phil[ipp] von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, , pages 207–208:Surrounded by lofty airy cassias, broad-leaved, white-stemmed cecropias, thick-crowned myrtles, large-flowered bignonias, climbing tufts of the mellifluous paullinias, far-spreading tendrils of the passion-flower, and of the richly flowering hatched coronilla, above which rise the waving summits of Macaubu palms, we fancied ourselves transported into the gardens of the Hesperides.
1876, S. L. Brand, Dora: A Life Story, London: Charing Cross Publishing Company, Limited, , page 85:A great cluster of passion-flowers stood near the verandah, and I stooped to gather some of the sad, mystical flowers. I always loved passion-flowers; roses and other flowers there were in profusion; but I preferred my passion-flowers.
1881, Jules Verne, translated by W. J. Gordon, The Giant Raft (Part I); Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, , page 32:A delightful residence was made of the house; it was raised a storey, surrounded by a verandah, and half hidden under beautiful trees—mimosas, fig-sycamores, bauhinias, and paullinias, whose trunks were invisible beneath a network of scarlet-flowered bromelias and passion-flowers.
1900 April 12, Bertha M. Clay, “Repented at Leisure”, in Wood County Reporter, Grand Rapids, Wis.: A. L. Fontaine:“Why, Ethel,” he cried “these are passion-flowers! Who ever heard of a bride with a bouquet of passion-flowers? What an evil omen, my darling! I am not superstitious, but it has frightened me.” “Nor am I superstitious,” she said, laughing. “Why did you gather them?” he asked. “Passion-flowers on a wedding-day! Why did you gather them, Ethel?”