Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors.
1The clove pink was the ancestor of all the carnations.
2Must have something worrying him: he used to look as fresh as a clove pink.
3Grace is a bluebell, Anne is a dear little clove pink, Nora is a whole bunch of violets and Jessica looks like a white narcissus.
4An empty camphor vial on Richard's desk had always a clove pink, or a pansy, or a rose, stuck into it, according to the season.
5Clove pinks like your ma used to raise.
6Out of the doorway fluttered a brilliant vision, all blue and white like the great butterflies hovering over the clove pinks.
7We could have ordered American Beauties from New York every day for what our hollyhocks and clove pinks and common annuals cost us.
8"Mistress Betty, I salute you," said Geoffrey Yorke, bowing low, "and may I also beg your acceptance of a bunch of clove pinks?
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