Etymology
Origin of mountainy
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In 1962, Sylvia Plath wrote these lines: “I am a mountain now, among mountainy women / The doctors move among us as if our bigness / Frightened the mind.”
From The Guardian ● Jul. 31, 2018
Miramon Lluagor, who was Manuel's Seneschal of Gontaron, retires to Vraidex, his mountainy magic-seat, and is temporarily rid of his talkative wife, Gisele, by wishing her into the middle of the next week.
From Time Magazine Archive
"These mountainy ponies climb like monkeys," said Philippa, with her inevitable effort to shelter the discomfited, as Andrew returned with the ruins of his theory, "she must have walked up the steps!"
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
The small farmers and herds and the hardy little dark mountainy men had this reverential feeling about the good man and his shop.
From Waysiders by Seumas O'Kelly
His drooping shoulders and deplorable countenance proclaimed apology and deprecation to the mountain tops, and more especially to the mountainy men.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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