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moss-grown

adj
/ˈmɒsɡɹəʊn/UK/ˈmɔsˌɡɹoʊn/US

Etymology

From moss + grown. Sense 2 (“old; old-fashioned, out of date”) refers to the fact that moss will often grow on an object that has remained outdoors in one place for some time.

  1. inherited from growen
  2. compounded as moss-grown — “moss + grown”

Definitions

  1. Having a covering of growing moss.

    • In one spot distinguished by a moss-grown gothic monument, which retained the name of Queen's Standing, Elizabeth herself was said to have pierced seven bucks with her own arrows.

  2. Old

    Old; old-fashioned, out of date.

    • To find one's self suddenly translated from the wild, flowery prairie into the heart of an aged, moss-grown village, of such foreign aspect, withal, was by no means easy to reconcile with one's notions of reality.
    • It was reserved for chivalry, embodying the spirit of christianity, to demolish this old, moss-grown bastile of the social state, and restore its captives to freedom, and the rights and prerogatives of freedom.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA