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Cornflower
Definition:
(n.) A conspicuous wild flower (Centaurea Cyanus), growing in grainfields.
Example Sentences:
(1) As late as 2013, he attended party gatherings wearing a blue cornflower on his lapel – a plant popularised as a symbol of the pan-German movement by the Austrian politician Georg Ritter von Schönerer , whom Hannah Arendt described as Adolf Hitler’s “spiritual father”.
(2) One key detail that both Leigh and Thompson get right is the ever-present cornflower blue necktie Ruskin wore, knowing that it highlighted his blue eyes, along with a brown-velvet-collared greatcoat.
(3) If it wasn’t for the votes of 31,000 Austrians – out of a 4.64 million-strong electorate – the country’s figurehead would now be Norbert Hofer , a man who wears the blue cornflower, a symbol associated with the Nazis.
(4) Strache has stated that the cornflower represented “the bourgeois freedom movement of 1848”, a claim that historians dismiss as fictitious.
(5) As Ian prepares for the half-mile-long return journey, he points a fistful of oily cotton waste towards the purple thistle-like flowerheads of knapweed, the pink, white and blue pincushion-shaped flowers of scabious, and the vivid blue of cornflower.