Also 6 Our ladies, 6–7 lady, 8–9 ladies’ thistle. [Cf. G. Frauendistel, Du. Vrouwendistel.] The thistle Carduus Marianus.
1552. Elyot, Dict., s.v. Spina, Spina alba, Our ladies Thistle.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, IV. lxii. 525. Our Ladyes Thistel groweth … in rough untoyled places.
1579. Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 634. Lady Thistles.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, II. 63/2. The Lady-Thistle is our common Thistle.
1776–96. Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 190. Milk Thistle. Ladies Thistle.
1831. J. Davies, Manual Mat. Med., 436. Ladies’ thistle. Carduus marianus.
