Tansy

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially Tanacetum vulgare.

   “The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.”

2. isim A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish. "Originally flavoured with tansy, but by Pepys's time generally having spinach as its predominant flavouring."

   “I had a pretty dinner for them; viz., a brace of stewed carps, six roasted chickens, and a jowle of salmon, hot, for the first course; a tanzy and two neats' tongues, and cheese the second; and were very merry all the afternoon, talking and singing and piping upon the flageolette.”

3. özel isim A female given name from English.

   “(I love romantic folksy English names like Tansy and Violet, Ralph likes Mitfordesque names like Pamela and Daphne)”