cedarn
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cedarn
First recorded in 1625–35; cedar + -(e)n 2 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
From Los Angeles Times
Keep who will the city's alleys, Take the smooth-shorn plain, Give to us the cedarn valleys, Rocks and hills of Maine!
From Project Gutenberg
We are in the land of colour, of sweet odours; the balmy smells of nard and cassia are flung about the cedarn alleys where we walk.
From Project Gutenberg
Here, where all is falling into dimness and dissolution, and we walk in cedarn gloom, and the very air of heaven goes mouldering to the lungs, I cannot remain commonplace.
From Project Gutenberg
But what arrested our attention was a small flower-bed close to the cedarn pillars of the verandah.
From Project Gutenberg
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