单词 | meadowy |
释义 | meadowyadj. Resembling or characteristic of a meadow or meadows; consisting of meadows. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [adjective] > used as meadow > resembling meadow meadowy1578 meadowisha1625 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Biij Places more medowy, or groundes flowyng with herbes. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Medowie, large, bleach, fieldie. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 159 Thy full and youthfull breasts, which in their meadowy pride, Are brancht with riuery veines, Meander-like that glide. 1676 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1920) III. 68 Four akars & a halfe of medowy or broshy land, 7li. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 328 This terminates in a meadowy plain. 1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iv. 40 Yon meadowy bottom. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 80 Miles of meadowy splendour. 1935 C. S. Lewis in Lysistrata May 23 Soft breathes the air Mild, and meadowy. 1988 M. Atwood Cat's Eye (1989) xiii. 64 We drive up through the meadowy farmlands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1578 |
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