noun
- fragrant flowers, especially carnations or stocks, often used in gardens and bouquets
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- The cottage garden was filled with sweet-smelling gillyflowers.
- She picked gillyflowers from the border to make a small bouquet.
- The old recipe called for gillyflowers to flavor the wine.
- Gillyflowers were popular in Victorian gardens for their fragrance.
- The poet wrote of gillyflowers blooming by the garden wall.