acold
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of acold
before 900; Middle English acolde, Old English ācolod, past participle of ācōlian to grow cold. See a- 3, cool, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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It was only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Cos� Fan Tutte was trembling and acold.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here you shall light a fire, which those who watch will believe to be but the fire of a herdsman who is acold.
From The Wizard by Haggard, Henry Rider
Is the fire of his old loving-kindness gone out, that his pyres are acold?
From Songs Before Sunrise by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Here we came when love was young, Now that love is old, Never let its day be lone, Nor its heart acold!
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
My caldron would grow acold And never again would bubble up, If touched by her thread of gold.
From The Rescue of the Princess Winsome A Fairy Play for Old and Young by Bacon, Albion Fellows
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