An artificial flower.
1857. [My wives will say] O dear, are there no ribbons coming? I want that artificial, quick; I want you to go and buy me that nice bonnet, for I am afraid there never will another one be brought here.—Brigham Young, Aug. 2: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ v. 98.
1903. I remember, too, with what destructive oratorical onslaughts the preachers [a. 1853] used to denounce the sinful wearing of “artificials”—by which they meant artificial flowers—in women’s bonnets.—G. C. Eggleston, ‘The First of the Hoosiers,’ p. 121 (Phila.).
