cellarous
English
Etymology
cellar + -ous
Adjective
cellarous (comparative more cellarous, superlative most cellarous)
- Like or belonging to a cellar.
- 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, OCLC 83401042:
- some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell
- 1860–1861, Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller:
- But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.
- 1999, Brian Louis Pearce, The Goldhawk Variations, page 139:
- But it'll be marvellous up there, after the dim fusty muffle of this cellarous bazaar […]
- 2011, Eve Ottenberg, The Widow's Opera, page 320:
- […] he cautiously raised his eyes and peered into the cellarous darkness.
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