adjective
Etymology
Origin of daedal
First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin daedalus “skillful, dexterous,” from Greek daídalos “cunning, cunningly made,” equivalent to daidál(lein) “to work with skill” + -os adjective suffix
Example Sentences
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A mere haircut will no longer salvage the graying mop atop, aside and below his daedal pate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dark, dark were this world of ours had either Divinity left it—dark without the day-beams of the Latonian Charioteer, darker yet without the daedal Smile of the God of the Other Bow!
From Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray
I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth.
From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland
Let those who to this daedal Valley throng And by my tumid Ashes pass along, Let them be glad with this consoling Thought: I got a Market Value for my Song.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
Round his neck he slung that long daedal chain wherefrom St. George, slaying the Dragon, dangles.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
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