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sallows

sallows is the plural of sallow.

sallows is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sallow.

Meaning of sallow

Noun

sallow (plural sallows)

  1. A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
    • I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Poplet tree, they wyl make cold al the heate of carnall lust in hym.c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44
    Synonyms:
    goat willow
  2. A willow twig or branch.
    • Who-so that buildeth his hous al of salwes,
      And priketh his blinde hors over the falwes,
      And suffreth his wyf to go seken halwes,
      Is worthy to been hanged on the galwes!1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story via the 'title' parameter)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne]...

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Questions about sallows

What is sallows the plural of?
Sallows is the plural of sallow.

Words near sallows in the dictionary

  1. sallowfaced
  2. sallowing
  3. sallowish
  4. sallowly
  5. sallowness
  6. sallows
  7. sallowthorn
  8. sallowthorns
  9. sallowy
  10. Salluit
  11. Sallustian

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