[APPLE- B 3 c.] A pie made with apples; transf. applied to the Willow-herb from the odor of the flowers and young shoots.
1590. Greene, Arcadia (1616), 67. Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 163. I made shift to get down a bit of apple-pye, and a little custard.
1861. Mrs. Lankester, Wild Fl., 52. Willow-herb … Applepie Plant.
Apple-pie bed: a bed in which, as a practical joke, the sheets are so folded that a person cannot get his legs down. Apple-pie order: complete, thorough order. [It has been suggested that this may be a corruption of ‘Cap-a-pie order,’ but no instance of the latter phrase appears.]
1813. Scott, in Lockhart, Life, IV. (1839), 131. The children’s garden is in apple-pie order.
1835. Marryat, Jac. Faithf., viii. 29. Put the craft a little into apple-pie order.
