Meanings
comparative more shadeful · superlative most shadeful
- Full of shade; shady; shaded.
The Eastern Avon vaunts, and doth upon her take To be the only child of shadeful Savernake [Forest],
1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, The Third Song, page 611 more example
Let yourself feel; and shadeful trees, Ripe corn, and apples red, Read as things barren and distasteful While we are separated!
1917, Thomas Hardy, “Love the Monopolist (Young Lover’s Reverie)”, in Moments of Vision
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