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 Primrose (George).Pri’mum Mo’bile, 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Primrose.
 
A curious corruption of the French primeverole, Italian primeverola, compounds of the Latin prima vera (first spring flower). Chaucer calls the word primirole, which is a contraction of the Italian prime’rola. The flower is no rose at all.   1
 


 Primrose (George).Pri’mum Mo’bile, 

 
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