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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Yosemite valley.

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Examples

  • The mountains rise into the cool sky furrowed with canyons almost yosemitic in grandeur, and filled with a glorious profusion of flowers and trees.

    Steep Trails John Muir 1876

  • A mile or two above this mountain, on the opposite side of the glacier, there is a rock like the Yosemite Sentinel; and in general all the wall rocks as far as I saw them are more or less yosemitic in form and color and streaked with cascades.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

  • In the angle formed by the main glacier and the lake that gives rise to the river floods, there is a massive granite dome sparsely feathered with trees, and just beyond this yosemitic rock is a mountain, perhaps ten thousand feet high, laden with ice and snow which seemed pure pearly white in the morning light.

    Travels in Alaska John Muir 1876

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