sweetbrier
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sweetbriar, sweet-breare (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
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 […].
- 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Blessing," [1]
- The mud-flats did not always smell nice although the bushes of sweet-briar on the edge of the high-water rim did their best […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11: