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asway en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + sway.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Swaying.
    • […] the screen was a large square of linen which any stray draught would set languorously asway, 2005, John Banville, The Sea, London: Picador, Part 2, p. 142:
    • The man sat loosely in the saddle, his shoulders easily asway to the gait of his mount; 1934, Maurice Walsh, chapter 2, in The Road to Nowhere, London: W. & R. Chambers:
    • Now the whole great terrace was a-sway with the crowd of nobles and princes, and others that were neither nobles nor princes, but true men only; 1856, William Morris, “Svend and His Brethren”, in Atalanta’s Race and Two Other Tales from the Earthly Paradise, London: J. M. Dent, n.d., p. 188: