Citations:latter-mint
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English citations of latter-mint and lattermind
Noun: "(obsolete, rare) A late-season species of mint."
[edit]- 1818, John Keats, “Book IV”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 187, lines 579-580:
- Savory, latter-mint, and columbines, / Cool parsley, basil sweet, and sunny thyme; […]
- alternatively, other editions have it unhyphenateD:
- 1888, Mrs. J. W. Shoemaker, Choice Dialogues: A Collection of New and Original Dialogues for School and Social Entertainment, page 20:
- where grew the fennel green and balm and golden pines, savory, lattermint and columbines, cool parsley, basil sweet and sunny thyme. Yea, every flower and leaf of every clime we gathered in the dewy morning.