sweet-william
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See also: sweet william and Sweet William
English
Noun
sweet-william (countable and uncountable, plural sweet-williams)
- Alternative spelling of sweet william
- 1842, Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 162:
- No one had such pinks as he had; his sweet-william was unrivaled,—he had only half a dozen geraniums, but then they were such geraniums,—the cottage, once an unsightly little mass of lath and plaster, was now besprinkled with roses; and then, his sweet peas were in blossom, and, fortunately for him who had not much to do, they required a great deal of sticking and tying.