acold
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of acold
before 900; Middle English acolde, Old English ācolod, past participle of ācōlian to grow cold. See a- 3, cool, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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It was only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Cos� Fan Tutte was trembling and acold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here we came when love was young, Now that love is old, Never let its day be lone, Nor its heart acold!
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
Ingram was away on one of his long absences, and she felt acold.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
How kind is the clasping right-hand, that hath smitten the battle acold!
From The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs by Morris, William
She might rightly say with Shakspeare, "Poor Tom's acold."
From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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