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silvern

[ sil-vern ]

adjective

, Archaic.
  1. made of or like silver.


silvern

/ ˈsɪlvən /

adjective

  1. archaic.
    silver
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of silvern1

before 900; Middle English silver ( e ) n, selvern, Old English seolfren, seolfern. See silver, -en 2
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Example Sentences

It was even visible in the sky already, giving faint white promise of silvern glory to come.

Wiser eyes than Sara's saw the cloud--observed that it grew blacker and more thunderous as it lowered nearer earth--that its lining, instead of being silvern, was lurid red.

His mind is marvelous, his tongue is silvern, his logic is invincible— as logic.

I should have liked to know whose written words first fired her brain with desire of the blackcap's song—a golden voice in imagination's ear, while the finest home voices were merely silvern.

And still the moonbeams fling a silvern dart, Straight through my window's iron barricade....

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