A cultivated flowering plant, derived by hybridization within species Viola tricolor.
The Daughters of the Flood have ſearch'd the Mead / For Violets pale, and cropt the Poppy's Head: / The Short Narciſſus and fair Daffodil, / Pancies to pleaſe the Sight, and Caſſia ſvveet to ſmell: […]
A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Junonia.
Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
A female given name.
From Middle French pensée (“thought”), as the plant resembles someone that is in deep thought, with a lowered head. Doublet of pensée.
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