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

But Rosecrans in the cedarn glade,   And, deep in denser cypress gloom, Dark Breckenridge, shall fade away       Or thinly loom.

From Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Melville, Herman

When she knew the day was come, She rose and washed her body, white as foam, With running water; then the cedarn press She opened, and took forth her funeral dress And rich adornment.

From Alcestis by Murray, Gilbert

Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.

From A Dreamer's Tales by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron

Coleridge, in Kubla Khan, has the line, “Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover”; and Tennyson, Geraint and Enid, the line,—“And moving toward a cedarn cabinet.”

From Minor Poems by Milton by Milton, John