/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Margaret or Marguerite (petite)
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The daisy; so called from its pearly whiteness, màrguerite being the French for a pearl. (See Marguerite.)
“The daise, a flour white and redde,
In French called ‘la belle Marguerite.ʹ”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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