Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Belonging to or connected with a cellar; subterranean; excavated.
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Examples
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Though expecting now to be summoned by his niece, he did not hear her until she had spoken to him three or four times; nor was he at all surprised by the presence of two nieces instead of one, but merely said in his tremulous voice, ‘I am coming, I am coming!’ and crept forth by some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell.
Little Dorrit 2007
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Vendale lighted a candle in a cleft stick, and went down for a cellarous stroll.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.
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The cellar doors happening to be open, Vendale lighted a candle in a cleft stick, and went down for a cellarous stroll.
No Thoroughfare Charles Dickens 1841
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But, a little side-door, which I had never observed before, stood open, and disclosed certain cellarous steps.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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Though expecting now to be summoned by his niece, he did not hear her until she had spoken to him three or four times; nor was he at all surprised by the presence of two nieces instead of one, but merely said in his tremulous voice, 'I am coming, I am coming!' and crept forth by some underground way which emitted a cellarous smell.
Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841
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