shadeful
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]shadeful (comparative more shadeful, superlative most shadeful)
- Full of shade; shady; shaded.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, The Third Song:
- The Eastern Avon vaunts, and doth upon her take
To be the only child of shadeful Savernake [Forest],
- 1917, Thomas Hardy, “Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie)”, in Moments of Vision:
- Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees,
Ripe corn, and apples red,
Read as things barren and distasteful
While we are separated!