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
But it has a noble cours planted with double rows of tall trees, and adorned with three or four fine fountains, the middlemost of which discharges hot water supplied from the source of the baths.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
We had reached the middlemost buoy when it became entirely calm, for which reason we could hardly steer the ship, and, in the meanwhile, the current was steadily setting us over to the west bank.
From Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 by James, Bartlett Burleigh
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.
From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Gaebelein, Arno C.
The first and the last the shepherds sing, and the second or middlemost the women sing.
From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various
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