英语词汇hollyhock的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

hollyhock. The old favorite garden flower wasn’t introduced to England by the Crusaders and named after the Holy Land as legend has it. Holly hock is a corruption of holy hock, which the plant was first called. Hock is an old name for “mallow,” and the plant probably became holy because it had been known as St. Cuthbert’s cole at one time. St. Cuthbert, who lived in the sev- enth century and also has an eider duck named for him, was of course holy and had his retreat on Holy Island (the Isle of Farne) off the English coast as well. He lived in a hermit’s cell on the island, where the mallow grew in marshes, and pilgrim- ages were made there as early as the ninth century.

词汇	hollyhock
词源	hollyhock. The old favorite garden flower wasn’t introduced to England by the Crusaders and named after the Holy Land as legend has it. Holly hock is a corruption of holy hock, which the plant was first called. Hock is an old name for “mallow,” and the plant probably became holy because it had been known as St. Cuthbert’s cole at one time. St. Cuthbert, who lived in the sev- enth century and also has an eider duck named for him, was of course holy and had his retreat on Holy Island (the Isle of Farne) off the English coast as well. He lived in a hermit’s cell on the island, where the mallow grew in marshes, and pilgrim- ages were made there as early as the ninth century.
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