winterly
AmericanEtymology
Origin of winterly
before 1000; Old English winterlīc (not recorded in ME); see winter, -ly
Example Sentences
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Their place had been filled by a tangle of many saplings, and in their midst rose an elder-bush, already showing leaf, amid the bare winterly wood.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
How bitter and winterly waxed last night The air that was mild!
From The Hoyden by Duchess
The ground was covered with snow, and the weather most winterly, when we embarked in our open boats to cross the lake for the Red River.
If Janiveer calends be summerly gay 'Twill be winterly weather till calends of May.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston
The air was still with a winterly touch, benumbed with cold, yet every sound rang sharply through that clear cloudless atmosphere, reddened without being warmed by the sun as it approached the west.
From The Doctor's Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
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