
ETYMOLOGY
alteration of Latin lilium convallium (lily of the valleys), influenced by fancy
EXAMPLE
“…Of Liricumancie.
Liricumfancie, or as other iudge May Lilie, for resemblace alike: It hath his flowre verie white. In Greeke it is called Ephemeron, for his short continuance and daylie dying…”
From: A Greene Forest
By John Maplet, 1567