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chimneyed

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Etymology

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From chimney +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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chimneyed (not comparable)

  1. Featuring one or more chimneys.
    • 1864, George MacDonald, “The Inner Dream.”, in A Hidden Life and Other Poems[1]:
      The cloud had sunk, and filled with fold on fold
      The chimneyed city; []
    • 1890, Mary Cholmondeley, The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers[2], page 262:
      He had watched the evening close in lurid and stormy across the chimneyed wastes of the black country, until the darkness covered all the land, and wiped out even the last memory of the dead day from the western sky.
    • 1899, Charlotte M. Yonge, Hopes and Fears[3], page 7:
      [T]hey stood before a farmhouse, timbered and chimneyed []
    • 1911, W. G. Collingwood, The Life of John Ruskin[4], page 217:
      They found a rough-cast country cottage, old, damp, decayed; smoky chimneyed and rat-riddled; []
    • 1920, Sir Harry Johnston, “Vivie and Norie”, in Mrs. Warren's Daughter[5]:
      Through this window, and still better from the parapet outside, may be seen [] the hint beyond a steepled and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate.