lavender
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She also totes lavender oil, a portable fan, a rosary and sour candies in a small bag she takes everywhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The beds are dotted with scented flowers such as honeysuckle, jasmine and lavender, and textured foliage and grasses that patients can touch and smell from their beds.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
She later went from a figure-hugging sheer lavender Gucci gown to a playful daytime polka dot ensemble from Jacquemus matched with retro white sun glasses, with Elle magazine praising her "old Hollywood" dash.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
The swish of polyester skirts in spring pastels — lavender, mint, butter-yellow — as the women of the church organized the spread.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
Hadel glared at the tapestry but continued with her spinning, and as she fell back into the rhythm, her threads lightened back to lavender.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Speaking to reporters afterwards, she explained her purple outfit was inspired by her love of lavenders and the calmness they bring.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Gophers devoured many of his early plants, including his lavenders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2023
For example, although Hidcote and Munstead are considered ornamental twins, as silver-leafed compact English lavenders, “Munstead was much better than Hidcote” in winter survival, Hawke said.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2018
Not surprisingly, perhaps, it’s the Californians and not the Mainers that throb with the most radiant colors: wheat yellows and shocking pinks, lurid reds and liquid lavenders.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
She and William saw them at dusk, when “the sky was so very lovely, too, maroons, lavenders, blues.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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