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- noun obsolete
strewings ;flowers strewn on acoffin
Etymologies
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A Shakespearan coinage
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Examples
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Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin crants and maiden strewments.’
Dracula 2003
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Well, here I am to-night, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with "virgin crants and maiden strewments."
Dracula 1897
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Her maiden strewments, and the bringing home Of bell and burial Laer.
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3422: Her Maiden strewments, and the bringing home
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3422: Her Maiden strewments, and the bringing home
The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1623 First Folio) 1603
vendingmachine commented on the word strewments
flowers "strewn" on top of a coffin.
June 10, 2022