Dowden

American  

[doud-n] / ˈdaʊd n /

noun

1. Edward, 1843–1913, Irish critic and poet.

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Example Sentences

If the horses of the Klephts in Romaic ballads are gold shod, the steed in Willie's Lady is no less splendidly accoutred,— "Silver shod before, And gowden shod behind."

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

"Weel, Maister Cawdor, let your speech be silver, and no gowden."

From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

They had the half-dead fish, with the bonnie gowden band around his tail, in a pot.

From Born to Wander A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures by Stables, Gordon

The ringlets that twine round thy brow, lassie, Are gowden, as gowden may be; Like the wee curly cluds that play round the sun, When he 's just going to drap in the sea.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles

There 's laughin' Lizzie, free o' care; There 's Mary, wi' the modest air; An' Kitty, wi' the gowden hair, Will a' be at the rockin'.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles