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myrtled en · ADJ

Etymology

From myrtle + -ed.

Meanings

1. (poetic) Containing myrtle.
   • Loud wail the dwellers on the myrtled coasts, The green savannas swell the maddened cry, And with a yell from all the demon hosts Falls the great star called Wormwood from the sky! 1842, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete:
   • Thee our Muses invite to these enjoyments; Thee those billows allure, the myrtled seashore, Birds allure with a song, and mighty Gaurus Twines his redolent wreath of vines and ivy. 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
   • So, by this glorious lane, over the myrtled hills and down into valleys, whose bed was one hue of rose from the blossoming oleanders, we travelled for five hours, crossing the low ranges of hills through which the Orontes forces his way to the sea. 1854 (date written), Bayard Taylor, “Journey to Antioch and Aleppo”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 191:

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