key-cold

adjective

Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.

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Meanings

adjectivekey-cold (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteCold as a metallic key; lifeless.

    Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King,

    c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 174, column 2
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    […] her apoſtolick vertu is departed from her, and hath left her Key-cold.

    1642, John Milton, The Reason of Church-Government Urg’d against Prelaty; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 228
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