1894 Brewer’s / C / Culverkeys
The keys or flowers of the culver or columba, i.e. columbine. (Anglo-Saxon culfre, a dove.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.