Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Leafy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Covered with leaves; leafy.
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- adjective Covered with leaves;
leafy .
Etymologies
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Latin frondens, present participle of frondere to put forth leaves. See frond.
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Examples
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Course, with high-frondent Avenues, pitchy dockyards, almond and olive groves, orange trees on house-tops, and white glittering bastides that crown the hills, are all behind them.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Yes, yonder, Mesdames, where our straight frondent Avenue, joined, as you note, by Two frondent brother Avenues from this hand and from that, spreads out into Place Royale and Palace Forecourt; yonder is the
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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** Nunc frondent fylvs nunc formoiiffimus annus. "
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
jaime_d commented on the word frondent
From Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution
March 6, 2011