sweet Nancy local.
The pheasant-eyed narcissus, Narcissus poeticus, esp. the double variety.
| 1848 Mrs. Gaskell Mary Barton viii, In his button-hole he stuck a narcissus (a sweet Nancy is its pretty Lancashire name). 1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 94 The hyacinth bells, and the sweet Nancies..blowing all together. |