shroudy

English

Etymology

From shroud +‎ -y.

Adjective

shroudy (comparative more shroudy, superlative most shroudy)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a shroud.
    • 1864, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volumes 23-24, page 102:
      […] a shroudy mist, which gradually assumed an angel form, and revealed the features of my precious sister.
  2. (obsolete, rare) Affording shelter.
    • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
      If your stray attendance be yet lodg'd
      Within these shroudie limits.
    • 1871, Virgil in English Rhythm, page 322:
      As when, within a shroudy pumice-rock / Ensconced, a shepherd hath [a swarm of] bees / Traced out, and filled it up with pungent smoke; […]
    • 1881, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 94:
      Hence a shroudy tree is one with plenty of branches, affording shroud, or shelter.

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