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thrift

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thrift: see leadwort leadwort , common name for the Plumbaginaceae, a family of perennial herbs and shrubs usually found in semiarid regions, especially of the Mediterranean area and Central Asia. Several species—e.g.
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thrift
Rare vigorous thriving or growth, as of a plant

thrift
any of numerous perennial plumbaginaceous low-growing plants of the genus Armeria, esp A. maritima, of Europe, W Asia, and North America, having narrow leaves and round heads of pink or white flowers


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Just about that time the word Thrift was to the fore.
Art will still withhold herself from thrift, and she does well, for nothing but love has any right to her.
There was the truth of virginity and the truth of passion, the truth of wealth and of poverty, of thrift and of profligacy, of carelessness and abandon.
 
 
 
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