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
Milton, Comus, 989: "And west winds with musky wing About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Robert Carruthers
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
II Lo! our silver censers swinging, Perfumes o'er thy path are flinging— Ne'er o'er Tempe's breathless valleys, Ne'er o'er Cypria's cedarn alleys, Or the Rose-isle's moonlit sea, Floated sweets more worthy thee.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
There eternal summer dwells, And west winds, with musky wing, About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia’s balmy smells.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
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