Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Composed of flags or sedge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made or composed of sedge.
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- adjective Made or composed of
sedge .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seemed impossible that with one bound she could span that terrible place and reach the sedged morass beyond; and still more impossible that it should be done by the poor animal with heavy Dot in her pouch.
Dot and the Kangaroo Ethel C. Pedley 1889
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Arnold in _The New Republic_, and who, after talking about "liberal air," "sedged brooks," and "meadow grass," admitted that it would be a dreadful bore to have no other society than the Clergyman of the parish, and no other topics of conversation than Justification by Faith and the measles.
Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography George William Erskine Russell 1886
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And what sedged brooks are Thames's tributaries; 110
Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Matthew Arnold 1855
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We have now ladies’ colleges, not in haunts remote from man, but by the sedged banks of Cam and Cherwell.
Alfred Tennyson 1842
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