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- adjective Alternative spelling of
new-mown .
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Examples
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"The grateful sweetness of the newmown hay/Breathing refreshment, fans the toiling/swain"
George Turner - The Hay Harvest Hermes 2009
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From the fields there comes the breath of newmown hay.
The white tree. Ann Althouse 2009
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Aromatics vibrating to the color indigo are newmown hay, lavender, and balsam.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Aromatics vibrating to the color indigo are newmown hay, lavender, and balsam.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Aromatics vibrating to the color indigo are newmown hay, lavender, and balsam.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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Aromatics vibrating to the color indigo are newmown hay, lavender, and balsam.
Zolar’s Magick Of Color Simon 1994
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He was a pump spouting fresh water in the springtime, gushing into a mound of reeking newmown grass.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001 1987
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The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capricciorippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discorda whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began.
Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932
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The haymakers were at work in the fields, and the perfume of the newmown hay brought with it the recollection of my native fields.
Tales of a Traveller 1824
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