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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Periwinkle

The bind-around plant. (Anglo-Saxon, pinewincle; French, pervenche; Latin, pervincio, to bind thoroughly.) In Italy it used to be wreathed round dead infants, and hence its Italian name, fior di morto.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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