英语词汇lady-s-mantle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lady-s-mantle
词源	lady’s-mantle; lady chapel; lady fern. A lady’s-mantle (Al- chemilla) is a flowering plant whose large, serrated, and many- lobed leaves resemble “the mantle of Our Lady,” and a lady chapel is a chapel attached to a large church and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. The delicate lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina) does not refer to the Virgin Mary, as is commonly believed, tak- ing its name from the legend that possession of its seeds could render a woman invisible.
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