Etymology
Origin of birchen
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; birch, -en 2
Example Sentences
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I love you for lulling me back into dreams Of the blue Highland mountains, and echoing streams, And of birchen glades breathing their balm.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
Will you await me at half past ten in the birchen hut?
From A Noble Name or D?nninghausen by Gl?mer, Claire Von
But other folk declare that on dark misty nights a pair resembling them are often seen to wander through the dim aisles of a certain birchen forest where the silver foxes are found.
From The Green Forest Fairy Book by Brady, Loretta Ellen
Leave the windy birchen cot For my own, light happy lot, O'er thee I my veil will fling.
From Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
They are like the folds of the birchen bark, thrown off as soon as formed, to give place to new ones.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
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