Etymology
Origin of mountainy
Example Sentences
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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
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
Of course I do," said Flurry, "he's one of those mountainy men that live up in the hill behind Aussolas.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
If he dhraws thim mountainy men down on me, I may as well go under the sod.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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