middlemost
Americanadjective
adjective
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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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 Dallington, Robert
In the middlemost Pile of Buildings, which is much higher than the two others, the Senate of34 Rome meets, and there Justice is administer’d.
If any three successive colours in the prismatic spectrum are mixed, they compose only the second or middlemost colour.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Darwin, Erasmus
The middlemost Pavilion, which is larger than the other Two, is square, and contains a great Hall, finely adorn’d with Architecture, and an Apartment on each Side.
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