cedarn

cedarn

English

Etymology

cedar +‎ -en

Adjective

cedarn (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
   • 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34,

     And west winds, with muskie wing

     About the cedar’n alleys fling

     Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.

   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan,

     But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

     Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

   • 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam, London: C. and J. Ollier, 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266,

     Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,

   • 1849, Matthew Arnold, “The New Sirens” in The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems, London: B. Fellowes, p. 72,

     Time is lame, and we grow weary

     In this slumbrous cedarn shade.

   • 1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath” in A Dreamer’s Tales, London: George Allen, p. 221,

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

   • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Hill o’ the Winds” in Love Story Magazine Volume 10, No. 2, 17 March, 1923, Chapter 2,

     “Do you,” said Romney shamelessly, “happen to know who the enchanted princess is who walks occasionally in yonder fair pleasance beyond the cedarn hedge?”

Translations

made of cedar

French: en cèdre

Anagrams

• Carden, Dancer, ancred, carden, craned, dancer, nacred, narced