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- adjective Of or pertaining to Andrew Marvell, 17th-century English poet.
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Marvell + -ian
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Still left exposed, in what is now a doleful garden (not at all Marvellian), is the tombstone of Richard Penderel of Boscobel, one of the five yeomen brothers who helped Charles to escape after Worcester.
Andrew Marvell Birrell, Augustine, 1850-1933 1905
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