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Definition of Coral necklace
1. Noun. Glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers; western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas.
Group relationships: Genus Illecebrum, Illecebrum
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coral Necklace
Literary usage of Coral necklace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists and Artists of Foreign Origin by Laurence Binyon (1902)
"... lips parted; wearing low dress aud coral necklace. Dated and signed Parsonage,
... coral necklace ..."
2. Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (1895)
"... where everything smelt of lavender and rose-leaves, to the clasping of the
small coral necklace that fitted closely round her little white neck. ..."
3. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"This must be what is known as " throwing good money after bad :"— coral necklace.—The
gentleman who purchased a coral necklace in Bishopsgate-street, ..."
4. The Chautauquan by Chautauqua Institution (1909)
"The wife's ambition, I found, was to have a coral necklace! Verily women are the
same the world over. They were living in bitter poverty with often hardly ..."
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