plovery

comparative more plovery · superlative most plovery

1. Full of plovers.

   The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides

   1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Andrew Lang”, in A child's garden of verses, page 117

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   And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore.

   2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons, page 80

2. Resembling or characteristic of a plover.

   […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […]

   1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake