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umbrageous [ʌmˈbreɪdʒəs] adj
shady or shading umbrageously adv umbrageousness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Tahiti is a lofty green island, with deep folds of a darker green, in which you divine silent valleys; there is mystery in their sombre depths, down which murmur and plash cool streams, and you feel that in those umbrageous places life from immemorial times has been led according to immemorial ways. Occasionally there were intervals of pasturage, and the banks of the river were fringed with willows and cottonwood, so that its course might be traced from the hilltops, winding under an umbrageous covert, through a wide sunburnt landscape. He put the roses in his breast and they walked on for a little while, slowly and silently, under the umbrageous trees. |
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