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Ragged Robin

A wild-flower. The word is used by Tennyson to mean a pretty damsel in ragged clothes.

“The prince Hath picked a ragged robin from the hedge.”

Tennyson: Idylls of the King; Enid.

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

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