cedarn
English
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[edit]cedarn (not comparable)
- (archaic, literary) Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
- 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34,[1]
- And west winds, with muskie wing
- About the cedar’n alleys fling
- Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.
- 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan,[2]:
- But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
- 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam[3], London: C. and J. Ollier, published 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266:
- Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,
- 1849, Matthew Arnold, “The New Sirens”, in The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems[4], London: B. Fellowes, page 72:
- Time is lame, and we grow weary
In this slumbrous cedarn shade.
- 1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,[5], London: George Allen, page 221:
- Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.
- 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Hill o’ the Winds” in Love Story Magazine Volume 10, No. 2, 17 March, 1923, Chapter 2,[6]
- “Do you,” said Romney shamelessly, “happen to know who the enchanted princess is who walks occasionally in yonder fair pleasance beyond the cedarn hedge?”
- 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34,[1]