cedarn

American  

[see-dern] / ˈsi dərn /

adjective

Archaic.

1. resembling or made of cedar.

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Etymology

Origin of cedarn

First recorded in 1625–35; cedar + -(e)n ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

We are in the land of colour, of sweet odours; the balmy smells of nard and cassia are flung about the cedarn alleys where we walk.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger

II Lo! our silver censers swinging, Perfumes o'er thy path are flinging— Ne'er o'er Tempe's breathless valleys, Ne'er o'er Cypria's cedarn alleys, Or the Rose-isle's moonlit sea, Floated sweets more worthy thee.

From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Milton, Comus, 989: "And west winds with musky wing  About the cedarn alleys fling  Nard and cassia's balmy smells."

From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert

Keep who will the city's alleys, Take the smooth-shorn plain, Give to us the cedarn valleys, Rocks and hills of Maine!

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.