Gerard Legh, The Accedens of Armory. With an address to the Reader by R. Argoll, age 185: [...] the nine sundry colours. As for Or, Ranuncula: for Argent the Iesemin: for Geules the Rose: for Azure, Periwinke: for Sable, Dwale: for Verte, v. leaued grasse: for Purpure, Buglasse: for Tenne Popy: for Sanguine the stock gilly flower, which colours are contained [...]
1838, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Flora's Interpreter, Or, The American Book of Flowers and Sentiments, page 149:
There sprang the violet all newe, And fresh periwinke, rich of hue, No violet, ne eke Periwinke Ne floure more than men can thinke.
1980, James Shirley, John Frederick Nims, James Shirley's Love's Cruelty: A Critical Edition, Dissertations-G:
Very good, I shall love this periwinke.
obsolete form of eriwinkle, the mollusc:
1570, Leving, Manip. 138/26: A Periwinke
obsolete form of periwig
1753, Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, page 355:
The fifth represents the fad plight of a courtier , whose periwinke , as he terms it , the wind had blown off by unbonneting in a falute , and exposed his waxen crown or fcalp . ' Tis probable this might be about the time of their[…]
1882, Matthew Arnold, The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction, page 542:
I him saluted in our lavish wise ; He answers my untimely courtesies : His bonnet vailed , ere ever he could think The unruly wind blows off his periwinke . He lights and runs and quickly hath him sped To overtake his overrunning head .
