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umbrous, a.|ˈʌmbrəs|
Also 5 vmbreuse.
[ad. F. ombreux, † umbreux, or L. umbrōs-us: cf. umbrose a.]
1. Lying in the shade; shady, shadowed.
1480Caxton Myrr. iii. i. 130 The Sonne..maketh the day to growe byfore hym, and on that other parte the erthe is vmbreuse & derke by hynde hym. 1480― Ovid's Met. x. i, The Kynge and the quene comanded that Erudice shold be called forth, which was in the umbrous valeye. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 334 It grows..in margins of fields, that are not umbrous. 1821T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 227 A meadow..umbrous with orange and cedar trees.
†2. fig. (See quot.) Obs.—1
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 108 b/1 He was umbrouse or shadewous, that is to saye he was colde and refrigerat fro all concupyscence of the flesshe. |