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pansy

/ˈpæn.zi/ adjective C2
  1. Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
  2. Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
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And we’re going to learn a new song--Jane Andrews is practicing it up now; and Alice Andrews is going to bring a new Pansy book next week and we’re all going to read it out loud, chapter about, down by the brook.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 120 · C1
Ruby Gillis smuggled three blue plums over to her during testament reading; Ella May MacPherson gave her an enormous yellow pansy cut from the covers of a floral catalogue--a species of desk decoration much prized in Avonlea school.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 127 · C1

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