cedarn

English

Etymology

From cedar +‎ -en.

Adjective

cedarn (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Constituted of or covered with cedar trees; made of cedar wood.
   • 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 34,^[1]

     And west winds, with muskie wing

     About the cedar’n alleys fling

     Nard, and Cassia’s balmie smells.

   • 1816, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan,‎^[2]:

     But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
     Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

   • 1817, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt of Islam‎^[3], London: C. and J. Ollier, published 1818, Canto 12, stanza 33, p. 266:

     Between a chasm of cedarn mountains riven,

   • 1849, Matthew Arnold, “The New Sirens”, in The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems‎^[4], London: B. Fellowes, page 72:

     Time is lame, and we grow weary
     In this slumbrous cedarn shade.

   • 1910, Lord Dunsany, “In Zaccarath”, in A Dreamer’s Tales,‎^[5], London: George Allen, page 221:

     Far overhead the echoes of his voice hummed on awhile among the cedarn rafters.

   • 1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Hill o’ the Winds” in Love Story Magazine Volume 10, No. 2, 17 March, 1923, Chapter 2,^[6]

     “Do you,” said Romney shamelessly, “happen to know who the enchanted princess is who walks occasionally in yonder fair pleasance beyond the cedarn hedge?”

Translations

made of cedar

• French: en cèdre
• Macedonian: ке́дров (kédrov)

Anagrams

• Carden, Dancer, ancred, carden, craned, dancer, nacred, narced