mellowed
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mellowed (comparative more mellowed, superlative most mellowed)
- That has become mellow.
- (of fruit) That has turned soft or tender by reason of ripeness.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
- And when the princely Perſean Diadem, / Shall ouerweigh his wearie witleſſe head, / And fall like mellowed fruit, with ſhakes of death, / In faire Perſea noble Tamburlain / Shall be my Regent, and remaine as King: […]
- (of fruit) That has turned soft or tender by reason of ripeness.
Verb
[edit]mellowed
- simple past and past participle of mellow