Meanings
- not comparablerareFurnishing or serving as a retreat.
Enabling vs to leape ashore for food, / And hide vs strait in our retreatfull flood
c. 1610s, Homer (attributed), translated by George Chapman, The Crowne of all Homers Workes: Batrachomyomachia, or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise […], published 1624, page 42 more examples
If ever there were a time when farmers were called from the slumbers of their fire sides, and from the honourable and retreatful occupations in the field, to the discussion of their grievances, it is now!
1832 May 1, Joseph Livesey, “Agriculture”, in The Moral Reformer, volume 2, number 5, page 153The sand and air under the boardwalk was cool and clammy, and there were smells of sea things and picnic garbage. But it was dark and, abruptly, retreatful for Elaine […]
1945, J. D. Salinger, “Elaine”, in Story, volume 26, page 45
Origin
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