2. Verb. (present participle of canopy) ¹
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Definition of Canopying
1. canopy [v] - See also: canopy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canopying
Literary usage of Canopying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"CANTO FOURTH FULL many a bard hath sung the solemn gloom Of the long Gothic aisle
and stone-ribbed roof, О'ег-canopying shrine and gorgeous tomb, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"... giving reduplication (so to speak) to the one by the trees which interrupt
the uniformity of its expanse, and canopying the other with ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"To hear Pindar in English, you must open your wings, and away to the field of
Elis, or the Isthmian strand. Under the canopying smoke of London or Edinburgh ..."
4. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"The languor of sleep being still upon him, he lazily watched the quivering of a
sunbeam that was caught in the canopying boughs above. Then ho dozed again. ..."
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