serried
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of serried
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The halves hang on clothes hangers in serried ranks, like clothes at a dry cleaners.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023
“The old Barnes & Noble was serried ranks of bookshelves, most sections arranged A to Z by author,” Daunt says.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2023
Across town, the faces of dead soldiers stare out in serried ranks from the walls of St Michael's Cathedral in a memorial that stretches for almost 100m.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2022
The serried ranks of grandees, from Oliver Letwin and Philip Hammond, to Rory Stewart and Dominic Grieve, will be formidable opposition to Johnson.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2019
The countless dark windows serried close together like ranks of soldiers.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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