Definitions

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  • adjective Flavored with or smelling of sage.

Etymologies

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sage +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Michael, thinking the sage was too "sagey" is how I ended up with quite that much cheese, although I wasn't using the most expensive kind for sure!

    Recipe for Sage-Pecan Pesto Kalyn Denny 2008

  • It smelled like creosote and flowers and the tang of some sagey herb, and there was a damp scent of recent rain.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • They must have looked upon the country with the same gleam that a cattle rancher displays looking out upon an endless, sagey stretch of open range.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • Here is a landscape of blues — dark blue mountain sides, rubber-blue sky, sagey blue pines and flax growing in tufts.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Particularities of Place 2008

  • I had it down to three before we left the showroom, then down to two, and it was just a matter of holding them up against the house and deciding that yes, the putty colour was too dull and the hemlock (lightish green, sagey with a touch of blue) wuld indeed go with pretty much any colour I'd want to paint anyhow.

    State of the Stress Level Address kittenpie 2008

  • I shook rocks out of my sandals and wished I had my camera to shoot the little sunflowers blooming in the sagey fields.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Some Assembly Required 2008

  • They must have looked upon the country with the same gleam that a cattle rancher displays looking out upon an endless, sagey stretch of open range.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • They must have looked upon the country with the same gleam that a cattle rancher displays looking out upon an endless, sagey stretch of open range.

    CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

  • While gorgeous on a woman, the sagey-galbanum part of it keeps it butch enough that a guy could pull it off easily as well.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Marina Geigert 2008

  • While gorgeous on a woman, the sagey-galbanum part of it keeps it butch enough that a guy could pull it off easily as well.

    Liz Zorn Sinti Marina Geigert 2008

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