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English
Noun
wall-flower (plural wall-flowers)
- Alternative form of wallflower
1809, William Nicholson, “BOTANY”, in The British Encyclopedia, or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences; , volume I (A … B), London: Printed by C Whittingham, ; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , →OCLC, column 1:A polypetalous corolla is either cruciform, as in a wall-flower, rosaceous, papilionaceous, as in the pea kind, or incomplete, when some parts found in analogous flowers are wanting.
1829, Alaric Alexander Watts, The Poetical Album: And Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry:The wall-flower—the wall-flower! How beautiful it blooms' It gleams above the ruined tower, Like sunlight over tombs;
1835, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, The Christian Lady’s magazine, page 2:The upper part of the wall was more gaudily attired, in all the variations of green moss, yellow and blue creepers, and the dark red of the wall-flower.