cedarn
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cedarn
First recorded in 1625–35; cedar + -(e)n 2 ( def. )
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Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Where are your moonlight halls, your cedarn glooms, The blossoming abysses of your hills?
From The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
He had shifted into a less fanciful mood: and the shadow that followed him was ugly and hulking and wavering upon the cedarn wall of Queen Helen's sleeping-chamber.
From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell
Sleep, white love, sleep, A cedarn cradle holds thee, And twilight, like a silver-woven coverlid, Enfolds thee.
From The Mountainy Singer by Seosamh MacCathmhaoil
And he put his joy in the scorn of men, as the miser shuts his gold in a cedarn chest, locked with a triple lock.
From The Well of Saint Clare by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
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