chive
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /tʃaɪv/
chive (plural chives)
- A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
- (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
- (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”
- […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.
- 1610, Edmund Bolton, The Elements of Armories, London: George Eld, Chapter 28, p. 156-157,
- […] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]
- 1633, John Gerard, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, London, Chapter 38, “Of Stitchwort,”
- The chiues or threds in the middle of the floure are sometimes of a reddish, or of a blackish colour.
- 1648, Robert Herrick (poet), “The Temple” in Hesperides (poetry collection), London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, pp. 104-105,
- The Saint, to which the most he prayes
- And offers Incense Nights and dayes,
- The Lady of the Lobster is,
- Whose foot-pace he doth stroak & kisse;
- And, humbly, chives of Saffron brings,
- For his most cheerfull offerings.
- 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed's Chronicles, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”
- French: ciboulette, cive
- German: Schnittlauch, Binsenlauch, Graslauch
- Italian: erba cipollina, cipolletta
- Portuguese: cebolinha
- Russian: шни́тт-лук
- Spanish: cebolleta, cebollino
- French: ciboulette
- German: Schnittlauch
- Italian: erba cipollina, cipolletta
- Portuguese: cebolinha
- Spanish: cebollino, (Mexico) cebollines
chive (plural chives)
Verbchive (chives, present participle chiving; past and past participle chived)
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