Definitions
made of earth (or baked clay)
Word origin
From Middle English erthen, urthen, from Old English eorþen, yrþen, ierþen (“made of earth”), from Proto-Germanic *irþīnaz. Cognate with Dutch aarden (“earthen”), German irden (“earthen”). By surface analysis, earth + -en (“made of”).
Used in a sentence
“1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake […]”
“But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds[.]”
“Will they be yours when one by one these earthen / Delights and comforts and all beauties wane? / Will they be found laid up above, illumined?”
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01“Made of clay”7 letters
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