strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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Now with bright holly all the temples are strow; With Laurel green and sacred Mistletoe.
From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude
The song is light as their fingers, but the burden is charming:— Now hath Flora robb’d her bowers To befriend this place with flowers; Strow about! strow about!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
O'er his fresh Marble strow the fading Rose And Lilly, for his Youth resembled those.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel
But he’s none of Flora’s friend That will not the rose commend; Strow about! strow about!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
Her mountain look, the candor of the snow, The strength of folded granite, and the calm Of choiring pines, whose swayed green branches strow A healing balm.
From The Story of Wellesley by Converse, Florence
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