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sylvan

[sil-vuhn] / ˈsɪl vən /
ADJECTIVE
woodsy
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Because you do not go to an airport to shop, dine or wander through a sylvan landscape, that’s why.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

The movie is romantic slapstick, set far from the bohemian Lower East Side in sylvan Vermont.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2022

Consider the hectares and hectares of fences and hedges, often erected at considerable cost to transform a yard, and certainly a pool, into an owner’s sylvan duchy.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022

According to the DSM-5, my trauma originated in learning about Jason’s trauma; it arose in that moment when I stepped off the veranda beside that sylvan lake and checked my email.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

The darkness of natural as well as of sylvan dusk gathered over me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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