Canterbury bells

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Canterbury bells

pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)

A European biennial herb (Campanula medium) widely cultivated for its showy, bell-shaped, blue, pink, or white flowers.

[From the association of the flowers with the bells on the horses of Canterbury pilgrims.]

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Can′terbury bells`

n.
(used with a sing. or pl. v.)

a plant, Campanula medium, of the bellflower family, cultivated for its bell-shaped violet-blue, pink, or white flowers.

[1570–80]

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