adroop

Definitions

1. Drooping.
   not-comparable
2. Covered (with something that droops); having something drooping over it.
   not-comparable

Examples

“Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail⟳ close⟳ by us, we, though all adroop before, catch⟳ somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel⟳ our bagging sails fill⟳ out.”

“His friend Lou looked dismal in the rain⟳, hat brim adroop, eyebrows soggy,”

“2005, John Banville, The Sea, Leicester: W. F. Howes, Part 2, p. 187, For a second I had that image of myself again, hunched hugely on my chair, pink lower lip adroop and enormous hands lying helplessly before me on the table, a great ape, captive, tranquillised and bleary.”

“fair long rows of orchard trees, adroop with rosy fruit”

“a crushed stone walk⟳ between hedges adroop with riotously colored fruits”

“a drive⟳ adroop with Spanish moss from the pillared veranda of an antebellum mansion”

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