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Definition of Grottoed
1. grotto [adj] - See also: grotto
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grottoed
Literary usage of Grottoed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin (1906)
"But it understood the luxury of the body; the terraced and scented and grottoed
garden, with its trickling fountains and slumbrous shades; the spacious hall ..."
2. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the by Frederick Law Olmsted (1862)
"It had been tastefully grottoed with heavy limestone rocks, now water-stained
and mossy, and the pure stream came gurgling up, in impetuous gallons, ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"Passing several conical inaccessible islets, on which Man-o'-war-birds were
breeding, we entered a cove of grottoed rock ending in a crescent of sand. ..."
4. King Arthur by Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1851)
"Then the nun led them, thro' the artful door Mask'd in the masonry, adown a stair
That coil'd its windings to the grottoed floor Of vaulted chambers ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"... its roof, a grottoed canopy of stucco-work, enamelled with rich colors still
distinguishable, the ornaments of its walls and ceiling, ..."
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