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sylvan

[sil-vuhn] / ˈsɪl vən /
ADJECTIVE
woodsy
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Its august and influential members frolic each year in the sylvan Bohemian Grove.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2023

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 sylvan property set on a 2,600-acre nature preserve has been hosting the tribute since 1988, a year after the movie’s release.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

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

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2022

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

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë




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