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love-in-a-mist

noun
\ ˈləv-ə-nə-ˌmist How to pronounce love-in-a-mist (audio) \

Definition of love-in-a-mist

: an Old World annual herb (Nigella damascena) of the buttercup family having usually blue or white flowers enveloped in numerous finely dissected bracts

First Known Use of love-in-a-mist

1787, in the meaning defined above

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