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roomly en · ADJ

Etymology

From room + -ly.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) roomy; spacious
   • […] the common men be disposed in cantonments open and extensive enough for air and exercise, and lodged in barracks as roomly and good as are provided by the party in whose power they are for their own troops […] 1796, United States. Congress, Acts passed at the first session of the 1st Congress:
   • […] the second Ward H was cover'd with a flat roof at the height of the rampart F, which made the area there very roomly and convenient for numbers […] 1754, Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall:

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