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Hollyhock

is the Anglo-Saxon, holihõc, the marsh-mallow. It is a mistake to derive it from Holy-oak.

 

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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.

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