jonquil

See also: Jonquil

English

Borrowed from French jonquille, itself a borrowing from Spanish junquillo.

jonquil (plural jonquils)

A fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil. [from 1660s]
A shade of yellow. [from late 18th c.]
jonquil:
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 187:
  She had a jonquil silk pelisse, a bonnet of the same colour, with a bird of paradise plume, looking very much like an illuminated butterfly.
- March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine‎^[1], page 258:
  At sunset dusky ghosts of sampans, laden with families living up the river, glide homeward against a jonquil sky.

Narcissus jonquilla