Also 6 Our Ladies, 6–8 ladies. [LADY sb. 3; cf. G. Frauen-, Marienmantel.] A common name for the rosaceous herb Alchemilla vulgaris. Also applied, with qualification, to other species (see quot. 1864).

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1548.  Turner, Names of Herbes, 82. Alchimilla … is called in english our Ladies Mantel or syndow.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, I. xcviii. 140. Great Sanicle or Ladies Mantell, groweth in some places of this countrey.

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1611.  Cotgr., Alchimille, Lions foot, Ladies mantle, great Sanicle.

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1794.  Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xv. 167. Ladies mantle has a calyx of one permanent leaf divided into eight segments.

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1864.  Sowerby, Brit. Bot. (ed. 3), III. 140. Silvery Lady’s-Mantle. Ibid., 141. Alpine Lady’s Mantle.

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1882.  Gd. Words, 673. Silken Alpine lady’s mantle rare.

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