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lilied en · ADJ

Etymology

From lily + -ed.

Meanings

1. Covered with, or having many, lilies.
   • 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114, https://archive.org/details/jeannedarcadrama00mack She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.
   • The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters. 1935, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds, Prologue:
   • Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks; 1634, John Milton, Arcades, III. Song:

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