Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding with elms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding with elms.
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- adjective rare, poetic Pertaining to
elm trees; in which elms grow.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And not from purple Wales only nor from elmy England,
St. Winefred's Well 1918
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Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote:
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906
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Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote:
The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897
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The morning light showed them the broad elmy meadows of western-looking
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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The morning light showed them the broad elmy meadows of western-looking
Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878
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I did genuinely love the elmy quiet of the dear old Cambridge streets, though, and I had a real and instant pleasure in the yellow colonial houses, with their white corners and casements and their green blinds, that lurked behind the shrubbery of the avenue I passed through to Mount
My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878
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I did genuinely love the elmy quiet of the dear old Cambridge streets, though, and I had a real and instant pleasure in the yellow colonial houses, with their white corners and casements and their green blinds, that lurked behind the shrubbery of the avenue I passed through to Mount
Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878
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Quiet, elmy spaces of meadow land stretch between the suburban mansions and the village of Charlesbourg, where the driver reassured himself as to his route from the group of idlers on the platform before the church.
A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878
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And not from purple Wales only nor from elmy England,
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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As the kine in midmost summer about the elmy glade;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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