Meanings
- alternativenot comparablepoeticAlternative spelling of winged.
The albatross threw himself to the ground in prostration before repeating three times: “Behold the Wingèd Emir!”
2026 [1979], Copi, “The Emir of Parrots”, in Kit Schluter, transl., City of Rats, New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 772 more examples
O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art / As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, / As is a wingèd messenger of heaven / Unto the white, upturnèd, wondering eyes
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 26-29The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low, / Each like a corpse within its grave, until / Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
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