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Word: pussywillow (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Ministry decree, and city prices, created a blooming black market. By last week flower prices in London were: tulips, $6 a dozen; carnations, $8 a dozen up; violets, once 10? a bunch, now 60?; daffodils up to $2.50 a small bunch. A pussywillow, once given free to a good buyer, now costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Blooming Black Market | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

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