enshaded

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English

Etymology

en- +‎ shade +‎ -ed

Adjective

enshaded (comparative more enshaded, superlative most enshaded)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Marked with different shades.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of W. Browne to this entry?)
  2. (archaic, poetic) Kept in shade or darkness.
    • (Can we date this quote?), John Keats, "To Sleep"
      O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, / Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: []

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