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plovery en · ADJ

Etymology

From plover + -y.

Meanings

1. Full of plovers.
   • And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore. 2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons, page 80:
   • The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Andrew Lang”, in A child's garden of verses, page 117:
2. Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
   • […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […] 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:

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