And don't you love the fact that another name for pansy is ‘love-in-idleness’?
Hatching a plan to win the Indian boy, Oberon sends Puck in search of a flower called love-in-idleness.
Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
The play's joke is that, while under the influence of the drug love-in-idleness, Titania cannot see just how bestial, how ridiculous, how mortal - in short, how ‘gross’ - Bottom has become.
Oberon resolves to defeat her by applying the magic juice of a flower, love-in-idleness, to her eyes as she sleeps, which will make her fall in love with the next creature she sees: he sends Robin to fetch it.
Definition of love-in-idleness in US English:
love-in-idleness
nounˌləvɪnˈaɪdlnəsˌləvinˈīdlnəs
another term for heartsease
Example sentencesExamples
Hatching a plan to win the Indian boy, Oberon sends Puck in search of a flower called love-in-idleness.
Large-flowered modern varieties are the result of hybridising the wild pansy, viola tricolor, also known as love-in-idleness, kiss-me-quick and heartsease.
The play's joke is that, while under the influence of the drug love-in-idleness, Titania cannot see just how bestial, how ridiculous, how mortal - in short, how ‘gross’ - Bottom has become.
Oberon resolves to defeat her by applying the magic juice of a flower, love-in-idleness, to her eyes as she sleeps, which will make her fall in love with the next creature she sees: he sends Robin to fetch it.
And don't you love the fact that another name for pansy is ‘love-in-idleness’?