chive

Example Sentences

• "Chive herb. (attributive use)"
• "What a splendid pie, pizza-pizza pie / Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy / Pepperoni and green peppers, mushrooms, olive, chives"
• "1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,” […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name."
• "[…] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]"
• "The chiues or threds in the middle of the floure are ſometimes of a reddiſh, or of a blackiſh colour."
• "The Saint, to which the most he prayes And offers Incense Nights and dayes, The Lady of the Lobster is, Whose foot-pace he doth stroak & kisse; And, humbly, chives of Saffron brings, For his most cheerfull offerings."