thymy

American  

[tahy-mee, thahy-mee] / ˈtaɪ mi, ˈθaɪ mi /

adjective

thymier, thymiest

1. of, pertaining to, resembling, or characteristic of thyme.

   a thymy fragrance.

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Etymology

Origin of thymy

First recorded in 1720–30; thyme + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Others gathered round them by the gap in the thymy earth-wall, and John raised his voice on high.

From Project Gutenberg

Leaving the cluster of three or four farms that formed the land-ward part of Llanyglo, they had turned through a gateless gap in a thymy earth-wall, and all save Mrs. Garden and Minetta had descended.

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When all was completed Fidunia, turning to Domenichino, pleaded with him to convey what remained of her devoted servant to the little thymy knoll beneath the olive trees, and there within easy reach of her convent walls, to lay to rest the still beautiful form of the faithful Fido.

From Project Gutenberg

The rosemary and marjoram root themselves in every cleft, and a thousand other herbs growing rank along the mountain-side catch every breeze that blows and fill the air, especially in the morning when the shadows are still wet and the day has not yet grown languorous, with thymy fragrances blown out of every hollow and ravine.

From Project Gutenberg

May you carry the burden bravely!—I hope you are on some thymy promontory and that the winds of heaven blow upon you all—perhaps in that simplified scene that you wrote to me from, with so gleaming a New England evocation, last year.

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