Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The smooth false foxglove, Dasistoma Virginicum, the leaves of which resemble those of the oak.

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Examples

  • Skif made his way to the spot where the wall was overhung by an ancient goldenoak-he hadn't come in by a gate, and he didn't intend to leave by one either.

    Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • Then he picked his way through the foliage, walking as surefootedly on the broad, swaying branch as if he were on the ground, pulling another branch closer with the hook end of his tool and hopping from his goldenoak to the limb of a massive candle-pine just as the branch began to bow beneath his weight.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • A massive goldenoak was his choice this time; he slipped hand-spikes out of his belt without conscious thought, and pulled the fingerless, backless leather gloves on over his palms.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • Then he picked his way through the foliage, walking as surefootedly on the broad, swaying branch as if he were on the ground, pulling another branch closer with the hook end of his tool and hopping from his goldenoak to the limb of a massive candle-pine just as the branch began to bow beneath his weight.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • A massive goldenoak was his choice this time; he slipped hand-spikes out of his belt without conscious thought, and pulled the fingerless, backless leather gloves on over his palms.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • He pulled his old mare to a halt, and slowly dismounted, then pointed at a little grove of goldenoak at the foot of a rocky hillside.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • "Excuse me," Vanyel said, after waiting for the carver perched on the back steps of his scarlet traveling - wagon (part workshop, part display, and part home) to finish the wild rose he was carving from a bit of goldenoak.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He pondered for a moment, for it seemed to him that his modest, goldenoak-paneled quarters had the anonymous, overly-neat look of a room without a current occupant.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • "Excuse me," Vanyel said, after waiting for the carver perched on the back steps of his scarlet traveling - wagon (part workshop, part display, and part home) to finish the wild rose he was carving from a bit of goldenoak.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He pondered for a moment, for it seemed to him that his modest, goldenoak-paneled quarters had the anonymous, overly-neat look of a room without a current occupant.

    Magic's Promise Lackey, Mercedes 1990

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