Good-King-Henry

[good-king-hen-ree]

noun

plural

Good-King-Henries 

1. a European, chenopodiaceous weed, Chenopodium bonus-henricus, naturalized in North America, having spinachlike leaves.

Good King Henry

noun

1. a weedy edible chenopodiaceous plant, Chenopodium bonus-henricus , of N Europe, W Asia, and North America, having arrow-shaped leaves and clusters of small green flowers

Word History and Origins

Origin of Good King Henry¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

Known as "le bon roi Henri" — Good King Henry — he was remembered for his kindness and care toward his subjects.

From US News

Known as “le bon roi Henri” — Good King Henry — he was remembered for his kindness and care toward his subjects.

From Seattle Times

This is some new attack upon us poor Huguenots--some other Jesuitical infraction of the privileges assured to us by our good King Henry IV.

From Project Gutenberg

Comedy is practically excluded except in the Cade scenes; and the last two parts, as their titles indicate, present a series of "falls of princes"—"the death of the good Duke Humphrey; And the banishment and death of the Duke of Suffolke, and the tragicall end of the proud cardinall of Winchester" and "The true Tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the death of good King Henry the Sixt."

From Project Gutenberg

When Ravaillac takes the life of good King Henry, of France, is it a justification that, in the interests of his faith, holy to him—of the religion he professed—he felt impelled thus to take the life of the monarch?

From Project Gutenberg