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fernbrake

[furn-breyk]

noun

  1. a thicket or dense growth of ferns.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of fernbrake1

First recorded in 1605–15; fern + brake 2
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Example Sentences

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On the plate is a tangle of fernbrake, wild young shoots shading from purple to rust brown to army green, the colors of mulch.

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A cousin to fiddleheads, the fernbrake arrives at the kitchen dried in packets and must be soaked overnight.

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Sometimes orders are lost in translation: Once I asked for a dish called “sprouted soy” in Russian, but what appeared was more fernbrake.

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The deer, that at twilight had trooped thither also for refreshment, suddenly, "with expanded nostrils, snuffed the air," and bounded off to their coverts, amidst the sheltering fernbrake.

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"Now for home, my little one," said the lady, turning; and away they flew over hill and hollow till they reached the broad, wide open gates of the place known to everybody as Fernbrake, and skimming gaily down the long flower-bordered avenue, they stopped at the door of the beautiful house.

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