Word Meanings - PRIMROSELEAGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in 1883. So called because primrose was (erroneously, it is said) taken to be the favorite flower of the Conservative statesman Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield.

• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• Flowerage
  State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.
• Foundationer
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• Leaguerer
  A besieger.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Callosities
  of Callosity
• Flower-de-luce
  A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• Primrose
  An early flowering plant of the genus Primula (P. vulgaris) closely allied to the cowslip. There are several varieties, as the white-, the red-, the yellow-flowered, etc. Formerly called also primerole, primerolles.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Flowerer
  A plant which flowers or blossoms.
• Founder
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• Statesman
  A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Floweret
  A small flower; a floret.

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