appentice
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of appentice
1610–20; < French appentis, Old French apentiz; penthouse
Example Sentences
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The slow sun sinks behind Those hills; and like a withered cheek, Distorted there, the spectral moon's defined Above those trees; above that mass of vines That, like a wrecked appentice, roofs those pines.—
From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison
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