Sweet briar

Sweet briar

Sweet briar can refer to:

*The sweet briar rose, "Rosa rubiginosa"
*Sweet Briar College, a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States


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  • Sweet Briar, Virginia — Sweet Briar is an unincorporated community in Amherst County in the central part of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is approximately 11 miles northeast of Lynchburg. Sweet Briar is best known for being the home of Sweet Briar College, a women s… …   Wikipedia

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  • Sweet Briar College — Infobox University name = Sweet Briar College motto = Rosam quae meruit ferat mottoeng = She who earns the rose may bear it established = 1901 type = Private women s college president = Elisabeth Showalter Muhlenfeld city = Sweet Briar state =… …   Wikipedia

  • Eglantine/sweet-briar —    A type of wild rose, with sweet smelling flowers and leaves, also known as sweet briar. Frodo and Sam found it growing in Ithilien as they journeyed through that land …   J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary

  • Briar Rose — may refer to:* A version of Sleeping Beauty written by the Brothers Grimm, and the name of the princess in it. * A pseudonym used by Princess Aurora in Walt Disney s Sleeping Beauty . * Briar Rose (novel), a novel by Jane Yolen. * Briar Rose… …   Wikipedia

  • briar — briar1 (also brier) noun a prickly scrambling shrub, especially a wild rose. [Rosa eglanteria (sweet briar) and other species.] Derivatives briary adjective Origin OE brr, brēr, of unknown origin. briar2 (also brier) noun 1》 (also …   English new terms dictionary

  • Sweet brier — Brier Bri er, Briar Bri ar (br[imac] [ e]r), n. [OE. brere, brer, AS. br[=e]r, br[ae]r; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn, brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.] 1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Briar — Brier Bri er, Briar Bri ar (br[imac] [ e]r), n. [OE. brere, brer, AS. br[=e]r, br[ae]r; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn, brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.] 1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • USS Sweet Brier (1862) — was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Sweet Briar was used by the Union Navy as an armed tugboat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Commissioned at New York City in 1862 Sweet Brier a …   Wikipedia

  • 24595 — Sweet Briar, Va (Miscellaneous » ZIP Codes) …   Abbreviations dictionary

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