love-in-idleness

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love-in-idleness (uncountable)

  1. Viola tricolor, the wild pansy.
    • 1974, Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal, The Summer Book, Sort Of Books, published 2003, page 115:
      The second came up about ten days later in the lee of the channel marker, and it was called stepmother, or love-in-idleness.