Complete Definition of "long purples"

English

Noun
long purples

  1. the plant purple loosestrife

Quotations
1602 William Shakespeare - Hamlet
:There with fantastic garlands did she come / Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, / That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, / But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them.

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