cedarn

[ see-dern ]

adjective

, Archaic.

1. resembling or made of cedar.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cedarn¹

First recorded in 1625–35; cedar + -(e)n ²( def )

Example Sentences

As the words ‘azurn’ and ‘cedarn’ are peculiar to Milton some hold that he adopted them from the Italian azzurino and cedrino.

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Here they rested, in a “cedarn shade,” until the gale had subsided: then en avant!

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But what arrested our attention was a small flower-bed close to the cedarn pillars of the verandah.

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About the cedarn alleys: about the pathways through cedar groves.

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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.

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