Crossword-Solution: PLATAN 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Here in one line is a perfect example of the richness of Spenser's art) 7 The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; warlike > (Because war-chariots in antiquity were reputedly made of beech) 8 The fruitful olive; and the platan round; platan > plane-tree 9 The carver holm; the maple seldom inward sound.

Scarce a bowshot past My platan, thro' the woven leaves low-hung, Trembling in meshes of the woven sun, A yellow-sanded pool, shallow and clear, Lay sparkling, brown about the further bank From scarlet-berried ash-trees hanging over.

Some sort of shade for the back of the head is necessary for an European, unless (which is not altogether to be recommended) he adopts the La Platan fashion of wearing the natural, and therefore surest, sunshade of his own hair hanging down to his shoulders after the manner of our old cavaliers.

After the conversion of the Mermedonians, the poet says that Andrew appointed a bishop over them, whose name was Platan.

The messenger of God appointed one, A man of wisdom tried, of prudent speech, To be a bishop in that city bright Over the people, and he hallowed him By virtue of his apostolic power 1650 Before the multitude for their behoof,-- His name was Platan.