pansy-faced

Updated: May 26, 2025

Tamar had lost her other children in infancy, and so the pansy-faced little Pompeylou of her mid-life was a great joy to her, and most of her leisure was devoted to the making of the pink calico slips that went to the little one's adorning. On her first journey into the great world beyond the plantation, however, she was not arrayed in one of these.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches