crannied
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of crannied
First recorded in 1400–50, crannied is from the late Middle English word cranyyd. See cranny, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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We have this wind coming off the East River, and Robert Moses got rid of Walt Whitman's neighborhood of crannied streets, and what was left was a steppe.
From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2013
Upon great pedestals founded in the deep waters stood two great kings of stone: still with blurred eyes and crannied brows they frowned upon the North.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The flower in the crannied wall would express the same thing as the bust of Caesar or the Critique of Pure Reason.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
I have but now Dismounted; and, from yon sequester'd cot, Whose lonely taper through the crannied wall Sheds its faint beams, and twinkles midst the trees, Have I, adventurous, grop'd my darksome way.
From André by Moses, Montrose Jonas
No cocoanuts nor bananas were to be seen, though dense, tropic vegetation overran everything, dripping in airy festoons from the sheer lips of the precipices and running riot in all the crannied ledges.
From South Sea Tales by London, Jack
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