umbrageous
Americanadjective
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creating or providing shade; shady.
an umbrageous tree.
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apt to take offense.
adjective
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Umbrageous walks, open parterres, and cool porticos, displayed their various attractions.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
Thus spoke the boy, And lightly mounting, cleaves the yielding air With beating wings, and on Parnassus' top Umbrageous rests.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.
An olive, at the haven’s head, expands Her branches wide, near to a pleasant cave Umbrageous, to the nymphs devoted named 120 The Naiads.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
Eëtion, who in Hypoplacian Thebes Umbrageous dwelt, Cilicia's mighty lord— His daughter valiant Hector had espoused.
From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William
And now the heralds came 330 In solemn pomp, conducting through the streets A sacred hecatomb, when in the grove Umbrageous of Apollo, King shaft-arm’d, The assembled Greecians met.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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