glade

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A riot of green and the occasional burst of colour, the glade is an oasis of calm with its high walls covered in ivy.

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  1. noun An open space in a forest.
  2. noun An everglade.

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  • A band of antelopes dashed into the glade, and halted close beside us--the frightened creatures not knowing where to run. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • A fire was kindled in the glade, and upon sword-blades and sapling spits the choice morsels of venison and "bear-meat" were roasted, and eaten, with many a jest about the "smoky kitchen I was myself hungered. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
  • Accordingly, a wide, clear space in about the centre of the glade was chosen, and preparations for pitching the camp were briskly proceeded with The discovery of these gigantic flowers threw Earle into a condition of quite pleasant excitement. —  In Search of El Dorado
  • It were easy to fancy it their monarch, and them not daring to intrude upon the domain it has set apart for itself With the moon now in the zenith, its shadow extends equally on all sides of its huge trunk, darkening half the surface of the glade--the other half in light, forming an illuminated ring around it. —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
  • I found all quiet in the lane or glade, and, unharnessing my little horse, I once more pitched my tent in the old spot beneath the ash, lighted my fire, ate my frugal meal, and then, after looking for some time at the heavenly bodies, and more particularly at the star Jupiter, I entered my tent, lay down upon my pallet, and went to sleep Nothing occurred on the following day which requires any particular notice, nor indeed on the one succeeding that. —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 2 (of 2)
 

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  1. Middle English, perhaps from glad, bright and shining; see glad1.

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  1. Not found in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon, but from Middle English glad (plural glade) (rare), smooth, usually bright. joyful, from Anglo-Saxon glæd, shining, bright, =Icelandic gladhr, shining, bright, = Dutch glad, bright, smooth, etc.: see glad. Cf. Swedish dial. glad-уp-pen, completely open, said of a lake from which the ice has all melted away; glatt, adverb (for *gladt, neuter adjective), completely, glatt öppen, completely open. The orig. sense is a ‘smooth, bare’ place or perhaps a ‘bright, light, clear’ place, as in a wood; cf. English lea, a meadow, = Latin lucus, a grove, glade, literally a ‘light’ space, from the root of light; Welsh goleufwlch, a glade, from goleu, light, clear, bright, + bwlch, a gap, notch, defile. Cf. everglade.
  2. Local English; a different application of glede, a kite.
 

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