silver mail

noun

Rent that has been paid in money.

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Meanings

noun
  1. datedobsoleteRent that has been paid in money.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see silver, mail.

    In silver mail all shadowy pale, / The moon shines white, so white . . .

    1897, Olive Custance, “A Pause”, in Opals, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, page 59
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    The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]

    1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12

    The flying-fishes in their silver mail / Rose up like stars, and pattered down like hail, […]

    1924, Roy Campbell, part II, in The Flaming Terrapin, New York, N.Y.: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, page 19

    The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.

    2013, John R. Fultz, “A Council of Kings”, in Seven Kings (Books of the Shaper; II), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 395
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