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enshaded

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Marked with different shades.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, poetic

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adj

Meaning 2

Kept in shade or darkness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic, poetic

Examples

  • c. 1810-1820, John Keats, "To Sleep" O soft embalmer of the still midnight, / Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, / Our gloom-pleas'd eyes, embower'd from the light, / Enshaded in forgetfulness divine: [...]

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History

Etymology

From en- + shade + -ed.