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It was the Queen's idea to add colour and Commonwealth plants, so among the folds there are also lotus flowers, teazles, flax and maple leaves.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2013

Some dry brown nettle stalks remain; some grey and broken thistles; some teazles leaning on the bushes.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

They sat down on the sour stony land among the rag-wort and teazles and feverfew.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

Here and there, however, neat rows of bramble standards and apple trees with whitewashed stems, intersected the fields, and at places groups of gigantic teazles reared their favoured spikes.

From Tales of Space and Time by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The description of cloth principally manufactured is broadcloth, dressed with teazles to produce a short 134 close nap on the face, and made of all shades of colour, but chiefly black, blue and scarlet.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various