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yewen en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈjuːn/
• /ˈjuːən/

Etymology

From Middle English *ewen, from Old English īwen (“made of yew, yewen”). By surface analysis, yew + -en.

Meanings

1. (archaic, not-comparable) Made from the wood of the yew tree.
   • Thus, in an old code it is written, “and no one shall hunt in the deer forest without the Bishop of Maury’s sanction. But if a knight shall come with many-coloured clothes, with an ermine bonnet and a yewen bow with a silken string, with arrows whose shafts are feathered with peacocks’ feathers, and with a snow-white hound with long pendent ears, led in a silken leash, such an one shall be aided to do his will, and without let or hindrance.” 1861, Charles Boner, “The Stag. Cervus elaphus. Linn. Part First.”, in Forest Creatures, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 88:

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