Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of cedar; made of cedar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood.
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- adjective Made of
cedar .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective consisting of or made of cedar
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Examples
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Tennyson uses the word 'cedarn' in _Recoll. of Arab.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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He had shifted into a less fanciful mood: and the shadow that followed him was ugly and hulking and wavering upon the cedarn wall of Queen Helen's sleeping-chamber.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.
A Dreamer's Tales Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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There were certain ways and places that he had cherished; he loved a great old common that stood on high ground, curtained about with ancient spacious houses of red brick, and their cedarn gardens.
The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905
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But the picture of Sanchia and Melusine, two fair girls, standing together embraced under the cedarn shade had smitten deep into the well-cased heart of Cyrus Worthington.
Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892
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And he put his joy in the scorn of men, as the miser shuts his gold in a cedarn chest, locked with a triple lock.
The Well of Saint Clare Anatole France 1884
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These balconies have heard the sighs of passion without selfishness; those cedarn alleys have admitted only vows that were never broken.
Oldport Days 1873
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These balconies have heard the sighs of passion without selfishness; those cedarn alleys have admitted only vows that were never broken.
Oldport Days Thomas Wentworth Higginson 1867
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Most noticeable among the ancestral masks, each in its little cedarn chest below the cornice, was that of the wasteful but elegant Marcellus, with the quaint resemblance in its yellow waxen features to Marius, just then so full of animation and country colour.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866
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Where are your moonlight halls, your cedarn glooms,
The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
qroqqa commented on the word cedarn
But O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
—Coleridge, 'Kubla Khan'
July 15, 2008