"dusty miller" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1829, Robert Chambers, The Scottish Songs, page 539:",
          "text": "Hey, the dusty miller, / And his dusty coat! / He will win a shilling, / Ere he spend a groat. / Dusty was the coat, / Dusty was the colour; / Dusty was the kiss, / That I gat frae the miller.",
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          "text": "The stereotypical image of the \"dusty miller\", as depicted in popular legend and some traditional literature, is a barrier, and milling is seen by younger people as low-status. There is an urgent need to change this perception through measures such as changing the designation to something like \"grain and feed processing technician\" and improving training provision and prospects.\""
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        "Any of several species of plants with leaves of a dusty appearance: Centaurea cineraria, Jacobaea maritima, Artemisia stelleriana, Spyridium parvifolium, and Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria."
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