Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding with willows.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.

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  • adjective Abounding in willow trees.

Etymologies

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willow +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Shadows and negative space create daft hallows of his beautiful shapes, in her eyes, there were no shapes as reticent and mature as the ones that outlined cheekbones, eye sockets and the willowed depth bellow his chin.

    Whispering to the Creature, “You are the Reason the World Is…” Amy Geeleher Burt 2011

  • My mother planted those two pecans in front of that house that had once been a willowed phenomenon.

    MOM The Daily Growler 2006

  • Anne took the darkness of her hair and eyes from him, though her willowed shapeliness was her mother's.

    Rekindled Delinsky, Barbara 1983

  • Cora thought of that day when she and Bess dared take the same journey, when the strange man sat at the willowed shore ostensibly making sketches.

    The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island Margaret Penrose

  • Hamlet every where; I had measured the deep shadows of the platform, encountered the grey ghost of the Royal Dane, had killed Polonius in the queen's closet, and drowned poor Ophelia in the willowed stream.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 280, October 27, 1827 Various

  • Even the villages look English: the same plum-red brick of tidy self-respecting houses, neat, demure and freshly painted, the gardens all bursting with flowers, the landscape hedgerowed and willowed and fed with water-courses, the peo -

    Fighting France 1915

  • But at length they came to the log, having passed around many green willowed kinks in the Little MacLeod.

    Wolf Breed Jackson Gregory 1912

  • I love it very much for it led to the very edge of a willowed bluff -- to the end of the land.

    Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Will Levington Comfort 1905

  • He had hastily opened a small cupboard, and caught up a broad black hat of Adèle's, with a long, willowed ostrich plume.

    Patty's Social Season Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Even the villages look English: the same plum-red brick of tidy self-respecting houses, neat, demure and freshly painted, the gardens all bursting with flowers, the landscape hedgerowed and willowed and fed with water-courses, the people's faces square and pink and honest, and the signs over the shops in a language half way between English and German.

    Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Edith Wharton 1899

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