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English
Adjective
key-cold (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 174, column 2:Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King,
1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 228:[…] her apoſtolick vertu is departed from her, and hath left her Key-cold.