Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of straw.
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- adjective Made of
straw .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The draught oxen wear white linen on their necks, and standing by dark green olive-trees each one is a picture; and the folk, especially women, wear delicate strawen hats with flowers and leaves fairly imitated in silk, with silver mixed.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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"Drowning bodies catch at strawen," was her reply.
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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‘birchen’, ‘beechen’, ‘strawen’, and many more, whereof some are obsolescent, some obsolete, the language manifestly tending now, as it has tended for a long time past, to the getting quit of these, and to the satisfying of itself with an adjectival apposition of the substantive in their stead.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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Oh small of soul! these little peevish pedantries fall chill upon good fellowship like wee icicles a-melting down from strawen eaves. "
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849
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