adjective
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of, relating to, or made from fir trees
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abounding in or dominated by firs
Etymology
Origin of firry
Example Sentences
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A cool wind was blowing down over the long harvest fields from the rims of firry western hills and whistling through the poplars.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
So they passed onwards through the rapping wicket Into the centre of a firry thicket.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
They went over to Orchard Slope by the short cut across the brook and up the firry hill grove.
From Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Finally one day he met her, coming up a path which led to a spring down in a firry hollow.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Mine, too—whose else?—thy costly fruit-garden … thy ampler pleasure-garden … thy firry wilderness….
From Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life by Vernon Lee
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