Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Covered with honeysuckles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with honeysuckles.
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- adjective Covered with
honeysuckle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vines honeysuckled the window; softly he peeped o'er the sill.
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I had seen her too amid the roses of a cottage garden flying the colour of long-forgotten roses in her cheeks; in the hay-field shaking off a dozen years in as many hours; and although she was always young to me, she never seemed so young and sweet as when we walked a honeysuckled lane together.
The Quest of the Simple Life Dawson, William J 1907
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After their belated supper, when Esther Nichols had gone over to a neighbour's, Horace, sitting by his mother's side, out in the honeysuckled porch, where the sphinx moths whirred like humming-birds of night, holding her hands in his, told her all.
People of the Whirlpool Mabel Osgood Wright 1896
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They suit these small landscapes, which are divided by honeysuckled hedges into sheltered fields and meadows, where the grass is mingled with daisies, buttercups, and harebells.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821
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Spooner is "Spooner was born a few minutes previous to daybreak in the historic, honeysuckled little town of Milledgeville, Georgia, in a make-shift delivery room put together in the waiting area of the medical offices of Dr. Emil Wood."
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If the owner of a large estate in Britain with its hundreds of people, who are as it were, under his care, its pretty quaint villages and honeysuckled cottages, its running brooks, its hedge - rows and green fields, all giving him scope for change and improvement -- if such a man is not happy and does not enjoy life, let him seek for some more favorable conditions in some other planet than this, say I.
Round the World Andrew Carnegie 1877
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"the boys," but seated in a howdah on an elephant's back, side by side with a mighty hunter, or walking with a tall flaxen-haired lieutenant between the honeysuckled hedges of an Irish boreen.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895
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