Obs. Also 6 liricum-, liriconfancie, lyryconfancy, 7 lilly-confancy, 8 liricumphancy. [Corruption of L. lilium convallium (see CONVALLY), influenced by FANCY.] The lily of the valley.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 49. Liricumfancie, or as other iudge May Lilie.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xxvi. 178. Lyllie Conuall, is now called … in English … Lyryconfancy.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, II. lxxxvii. § 2. 332. It is called in English Lillie of the valley, or the Conuall Lillie, and May Lillies, and in some places Liriconfancie.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, xii. 24. It [Lily of the Valley] is called … in some places, Liriconfancy or Lilly-Confancy.
1746. Poor Robin, an Almanac, A 8 b (May). The Honey-suckle, Rosemary, Liricumphancy, Rose-parsley,… Which do this Month adorn each Field.
1755. Johnson, Liriconfancy, a flower.
