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English
Adjective
arborous (not comparable)
- Formed by trees; filled or covered with trees.
an arborous landscape; arborous vegetation
1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 137-139:[…] from under shadie arborous roof,
Soon as they forth were come to open sight
Of day-spring,
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Dedication to the Reverend George Coleridge” in Poems, Bristol: J. Cottle, 2nd edition, pp. x-xi,
- the Tree whose old boughs,
- That hang above us in an arborous roof,
- Stirr’d by the faint gale of departing May
- Send their loose blossoms slanting o’er our heads!
1825, John Galt, chapter 4, in The Omen, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Epoch 4, page 144:[…] they had no sense of their condition; they were happy in a flowery, an arborous Sicilian garden: the volcano was below, and the giant earthquake only asleep.
2000, Amit Chaudhuri, A New World, London: Picador, pages 67–68:The thought of his other son […] married […] for four years and living in the arborous suburb, Vasant Vihar, in Delhi, disturbed him only remotely,
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