lilied
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lilied (comparative more lilied, superlative most lilied)
- Covered with, or having many, lilies.
- 1634, John Milton, Arcades[1], III. Song:
- Nymphs and Shepherds, dance no more / By sandy Ladon's lilied banks;
- 1906, Percy MacKaye, Jeanne d'Arc, Act III, New York: Macmillan, p. 114, [2]
- She drives you from the bridge. Her armour!— Now— / Oh, she is blown about and fluttered o'er / By clouds of little golden butterflies, / And where she thrusts her lilied banner through, / She glitters double—in the air and river.
- 1935, John Buchan, The House of the Four Winds[3], Prologue:
- The summer term had been busy and stuffy, and to a Rugby player there were few attractions in punts among lilied backwaters.