- a variation of sylvan.
silvan
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In the hills we had no common sport, With our dogs and our arms many deer we slew; When at noon we return’d to our silvan court, We were a well-pleas’d, laughing crew.
From King Hacon's Death and Bran and the Black Dog two ballads by George Henry Borrow
After a short parley, however, she carries him to a woody island, where she leads him into a sort of silvan mansion, rudely constructed, and hung round with trophies of war and the chase.
From Lady of the Lake by William Vaughn Moody
The silvan deities had fled The spot where all the light was dead, Where hermit coats of skin displayed, And piles of sacred grass were laid.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
The existence of a satyr, in the silvan form, is even pretended to be proved by the evidence of Saint Anthony, to whom one is said to have appeared in the desert.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
Here is tranquillity and silvan shade; For now, emerging from that waste of sand Which was my life, I reach a fruitful glade, A pool of water in a thirsty land.
From Mice & Other Poems by Gerald Bullett
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