Meaning of earthbred | Babel Free

Definitions

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

obsolete, poetic

Examples

“And (flapping his blue wings along) scorch up / All earthbred glory like a sapless reed.”

“And bound to earth, their earthbread habits ply”

“She recollected that even while he still sang, she had felt the keen earthbred eyes search her out, as it were, from all the pressing crowd, and mark her for their own; remembered that once his song finished, she had known neither surprise nor chagrin when Lady Ashleigh had brought him up and presented him to Mrs. Paignton and her niece.”

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