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Veronica vs Lily - What's the difference?

veronica | lily |

As proper nouns the difference between veronica and lily

is that veronica is ; a cognate of the english veronica while lily is popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.

veronica

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
  • * 1973 , Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta :
    • A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (…) The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador – the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull’s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
  • * 1988 , Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron :
    • He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
  • (bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
  • * 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
    • The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick veronica with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
  • * 1989 , Martin Amis, London Fields , Vintage 2003, p. 357:
    • He stepped aside as a fight got going between an attendant and some kid by the Alkool display, hopping backwards in a practised veronica when a bottle broke, fearful for his flares.
  • (botany) A flower of the genus Veronica , usually having blue petals.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 871:
    • meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue veronica you could shelter from the rain under
  • * 1978 , Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea , Vintage 1999, p. 11:
    • There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas , all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.

    lily

    English

    (wikipedia lily)

    Noun

    (lilies)
  • Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
  • Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
  • (heraldiccharge) The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
  • The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
  • * (rfdate) Sir Thomas Browne
    • But sailing further, it veers its lily to the west.

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * arum lily * belladonna lily * calla lily * cobra lily * day lily * Easter lily * fawn lily * lily of the field * lily of the valley * Mariposa lily * palm lily * rock lily * spider lily * star lily * tiger lily * trout lily * water lily

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (slang, derogatory) White (as a racial epithet).
  • * 1994 , Colleen Faulkner, Captive
    • "Can't you see I'm trying to save your lily ass?" "I don't want to be saved," Tess moaned as he hauled her up and into his lap with one beefy hand.

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