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- adjective obsolete
shiny
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Examples
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Tho shee strove not to make that sweetnesse sheene.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Alenge [34] from bark to bark the bryghte sheene [35] flyes;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Whose eyne dyd feerie sheene, like blue-hayred defs [9],
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Amenge the drybblett [60] ons to sheene fulle bryghte;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Botte soare on hyghe, & yn the sonne-bemes sheene;
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Nete in thys forreste, botte thys tore [111], dothe sheene, 1020
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Kyng Adland hath a daughter, brother, men call her bright and sheene;
Kyng Estmere 1898
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You have a daughter, said Adler younge, men call her bright and sheene;
Kyng Estmere 1898
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When shawes [9] beene sheene [10], and shradds [11] full fayre,
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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Gentile Jew baiters then picked up the emphatic sheene of sheene Yeedo without necessarily understanding it quite, but realizing that it wasn't exactly complimentary. "
OUPblog SarahN 2009
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