lilac

“Around the fountain, in the flower beds, and near the lilac. Very good, my lady. That is just what you will see, come April.”

Penelope inhaled deeply; the air smelled like lilacs, and there was a lovely low hum of bees and some very promising distant sounds of birdsong.

The duo stared up in the sky as dozens of lilac balloons burst into the sky.

"Back in 1998, we had this outfit with tartan trews, a pinky lilac shirt, and these tartan waistcoats, which we were so proud of," Kennedy remembers.

Following “the Sydney Cherkov way,” she wears a lilac blouse that telegraphs meek, demure energy.