peakèd

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1. alternativeAlternative form of peaked.

   The shepherd he stood on the side of the hill, / And he looked main cold and peakèd; […]

   1879 October, [Richard Jefferies], “Greene Ferne Farm”, in Edmund Yates, editor, Time: A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting & Amusing Literature, volume II, London: […], published 1880, page 22

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   O blue sky! it mindeth me / Of places where I used to see / Its vast unbroken circle thrown / From the far pale-peakèd hill / Out to the last verge of ocean— / As by God’s arm it were done / Then for the first time, with the emotion / Of that first impulse on it still.

   1871 [1850], Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Soul’s Travelling”, in The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Complete in One Volume. Corrected by the Last London Edition., Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co, stanza IV, page 53, column 2

   “I did not ask her name, miss; but she’s a poor-looking, peakèd little thing” (“peakèd” signifying thin in the face).

   1873, Frances Ridley Havergal, Bruey: A Little Worker for Christ, 2nd edition, London: James Nisbet & Co., […], page 131

   […] Rivers, with low squat bridges; every where / Women and children; beardless men, with queues, / In tunics, short wide trowsers, silken shoes, / Some with the peakèd caps of Mandarins; […]

   1876 August, Richard Henry Stoddard, “Hospes Civitatis”, in Scribner’s Monthly, volume XII, number 4, page 587, column 2

   And as he spoke, / He threw off his cloak, / He flung to the floor his peakèd hood, / And a gallant knight before her stood!

   1898 January, Carolyn Wells, “The Lay of the Lady Lorraine”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXV, number 3, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., page 195, column 2

   City life would doubtless soon reduce her to a thin, pale, peakèd specimen of humanity, unrecognisable by her friends.

   1904, Carolyn Wells, “The Debate”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 10