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 ● Feb. 2, 2023
Keep who will the city's alleys, Take the smooth-shorn plain, Give to us the cedarn valleys, Rocks and hills of Maine!
From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.
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 The Three Impostors or The Transmutations by Machen, Arthur
Flies their mystic mazes Intricately thread, Where the sunshine blazes Through the cedarn hazes, Just above my head.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, August 13, 1887 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
Far as Miletus travelled Pæan's son; There to be guest of Nicias, guest of one Who heals all sickness; and who still reveres Him, for his sake this cedarn image rears.
From Theocritus, translated into English Verse by Theocritus
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