linden

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I'll merely add that I should like to carve that Madonna in German linden-wood and give her all the colours of life itself, and then die, for all I care Frederick's enthusiastic outburst was received with great applause Eva Burns was a beautiful young woman of over twenty-five years, imposing and perhaps somewhat masculine in appearance.

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  1. noun Any of various deciduous shade trees of the genus Tilia having heart-shaped leaves, drooping cymose clusters of yellowish, often fragrant flowers, and peduncles united into a large lingulate bract. Also called basswood, lime2.

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  • Came pine and linden, rowan and new-leafed, timid beech-he knew them by their names, master Karoly had taught him. —  The Goblin Mirror
  • I'll merely add that I should like to carve that Madonna in German linden-wood and give her all the colours of life itself, and then die, for all I care Frederick's enthusiastic outburst was received with great applause Eva Burns was a beautiful young woman of over twenty-five years, imposing and perhaps somewhat masculine in appearance. —  Atlantis
  • My temporary quarters were beneath the loveliest grove of linden-trees, and as I reclined, half-dozing, the mocking-birds sang all night like nightingales, — their notes seeming to trickle down through the sweet air from amid the blossoming boughs. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
  • "The elf woman shot him with an arrow at the High Clerist's Tower. —  Dragons of Spring Dawning
  • [*] English linden, or lime-tree. —  Balzac
 

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  1. Middle English, made of linden wood, from Old English, from lind, linden.

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  1. Formerly also lynden; from Middle English linden, from Anglo-Saxon linden (= German linden), of the lind, from , lind, lind, + -en: see lind and -en. As a noun the word is modern, being, like aspen, orig. only adjective
 

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