noun
- any of various fragrant flowers, especially carnations or stocks
Usage: archaic or literary
Examples
- The cottage garden was filled with sweet-smelling gillyflowers.
- She picked a bouquet of gillyflowers for the dining table.
- The old recipe called for gillyflower petals to flavor the syrup.
- Gillyflowers were popular in medieval herb gardens.
- The poet wrote of gillyflowers blooming by the garden wall.