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
At such times, it is to the novelists, to the inventors of stories, that we most willingly turn for the poppied draught that we crave.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
The end is more than joy and anguish, Than lives that laugh and lives that languish, The poppied sleep, the end of all.
From Poems & Ballads (First Series) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
What cares I took To obey this wise book, I, who feared each hour Lest Death's cruel power On the poppied plain Might make cares vain!
From Country Sentiment by Graves, Robert
He has no poppied or honeyed cakes through which to give the monster sleep or sustenance.
From The Soul of Man under Socialism by Wilde, Oscar
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