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quaker-ladieses

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Quak⋅er-la⋅dies

  [kwey-ker-ley-deez]
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–noun (used with a plural verb)
bluet (def. 1).
Origin:
1870–75, Americanism

blu⋅et

  [bloo-it]
–noun
1. Usually, bluets. Also called innocence, Quaker-ladies. any of several North American plants of the genus Houstonia (or Hedyotis), of the madder family, esp. H. caerulea, a low-growing plant having four-petaled blue and white flowers.
2. any of various other plants having blue flowers.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME blewet, blewed, var. of ME bloweth, blowed (see blue, blae ); suffix perh. OE -et, as in thicket
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