Crossword-Solution: SELVAGES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Edges on yard goods. | 1 answer |
| Ravelproof edges. | 1 answer |
| Fabric edges | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
EIONOTM
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with SELVAGES (5)
Since the time of its greatest depression the land is known to have risen some three hundred feet; for the bays have been shortened, and the waste with which their floors were strewn is now in part laid bare as clay plains about the bay heads and in narrow selvages about the peninsulas and islands.
THERE SHALL BE BUT ONE MEASURE THROUGHOUT THE REALM] There shall be one measure of wine throughout our realm, one measure of ale, and one measure of grain, to wit, the London quarter, and one breadth of dyed cloth, russets, and haberjets, to wit, two {ells} YARDS within the selvages.
The selvages of the cloth, or more strictly the two edges of the cloth, of a width of about two inches, are caused to pass over and at the same time are held by the rims of two diverging pulleys.
The finest patches of it grow on waste strips or selvages of land at the base of dry hills, just above the edge of the meadows, where the greedy mower does not deign to swing his scythe; for this is a thin and poor grass, beneath his notice.
Beyond the gates the yew-lined drive, with its selvages of deep green turf, led straight to the Elizabethan house a quarter of a mile distant.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1957–2005).