sweetbrier
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- sweet-breare (obsolete)
- sweetbriar
Noun [edit]
sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)
- A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
- Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare, / The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11: