poppied
Americanadjective
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covered with poppies
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of or relating to the effects of poppies, esp in inducing drowsiness or sleep
Etymology
Origin of poppied
Example Sentences
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Of course, even after that, the illusion of choice remains – you, player from another land, can choose to opt out of wearing the poppied strip.
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2018
Young Love lies drowsing Away to poppied death; 50 Cool shadows deepen Across the sleeping face: So fails the summer With warm, delicious breath; And what hath autumn To give us in its place?
From Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems by Rossetti, Christina Georgina
What land, to give us right Of refuge, yields To the sharp scythes of light Her poppied fields?
From A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry by Various
In docile shadows under bluebell skies A home upon the poppied edge of eve, Beneath lone peaks the splendors never leave, In lemon orchards whence the egret flies.
From Days and Dreams Poems by Cawein, Madison J.
Adown Lethean streams his spirit drifted, Under Elysian shades from poppied bank, With amaranths massed in dark luxuriance dank.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks
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