middlemost

American  

[mid-l-mohst] / ˈmɪd lˌmoʊst /

adjective

1. midmost.

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middlemost British  

/ ˈmɪdəlˌməʊst /

adjective

1. another word for midmost

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Etymology

Origin of middlemost

First recorded in 1275–1325, middlemost is from the Middle English word middelmast. See middle, -most

Example Sentences

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middlemost

Yakov considered the arrangement, his gaze flicking back and forth, before pointing toward the middlemost card.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Finally, how they came to the three gates, in the middlemost whereof, hee remained amongst the amorous Nymphes.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington

The middlemost Pavilion which is design'd to lodge the Master of the Horse is much higher than the other six, which sink gradually on the two sides.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

The first and the last the shepherds sing, and the second or middlemost the women sing.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

The "middlemost" of the "stack" of brick buildings was like a busy hive, with burgesses pouring in and out, and conversing in agitated groups, while they warmed themselves before the fireplaces in the two rooms.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie

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