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elmy en · ADJ

Etymology

From elm + -y.

Meanings

1. (poetic, rare) Pertaining to elm trees; in which elms grow.
   • The appearance is such that I might compare it to that of the checkered moonlight admitted through an elmy overarching grove... 1842, Knickerbocker:
   • Here amidst an elmy dale arose an imposing Gothic pile... 2001, Marguerite Van Die, Religion and public life in Canada: historical and comparative perspectives:
   • Strange faint hushes / Rose slowly round him / And an elmy breeze / Sighed as waters of day / Far away. 1918, Austin Clarke, The vengeance of Fionn:

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