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queenward

queenward adverb: towards a queen.

Adverb

queenward (not comparable)

  1. Towards a queen.
    • The cloth was so large it covered both the form, and all the ground within the King’s travers, or large cloth of estate, “which was open both afore and behind, and the side to the queenward, and close at the wall, and it was all of the same purple velvet, embroidered with flower de lysys of gold.”1527?, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII: Preserved in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, and Elsewhere, published 1965, page 1443
    • It is a letter in which, courtward and Queenward, Sir Robert uses very strong language, calling the statement of Vanity Fair “a very impudent expression of the latest development of the ridiculous imperialism of the present day;” “a clear breach of privilege, recalling the most stupid exhibitions...1879 June 28, “Beaconsfield and Peel”, in The Evening Star, volume 53, number 8,186, Washington, D.C.

Examples of queenward in a sentence

  • At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surging queenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.1987, Appalachian Heritage, page 17:
  • The conjoined pawns, an impenetrable knot, begin to roll queenward, leaving Black hopelessly uncoordinated.2012, Cyrus Lakdawala, “Kramnik on Defence”, in Kramnik: Move by Move, Everyman Chess, game 20 (V.Kramnik-L.Aronian, Zürich Chess Challenge...
  • Right now it was plugged into the mains under his desk, its back cover laid carefully on the desk, a screwdriver and four screws sitting queenward of a forlorn king’s bishop.2016, Ian Tregillis, Radio Free Tresmigistus (The Witch Who Came in from the Cold, season one, episode 07)), Serial Box, →ISBN:

Origin of queenward

From queen + -ward.

Questions about queenward

What does queenward mean?
Queenward means towards a queen.
How do you use queenward in a sentence?
At spring’s bright urging, they left aseptic hive and clovered field to play the game bees must play once; surging queenward, they balled the fast warming air, reeled once, then dropped.
What part of speech is queenward?
Queenward is an adverb.

Words near queenward in the dictionary

  1. Queenslanders
  2. Queenstown
  3. Queensville
  4. queensware
  5. Queensway
  6. queenward
  7. queenweed
  8. queenwood
  9. queeny
  10. QueeNZlander
  11. QueeNZlanders

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