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silver mail

silver mail noun: rent that has been paid in money.

Noun

silver mail

  1. (dated, obsolete) Rent that has been paid in money.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see silver, mail.
    • The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]1819, John Keats, “Lamia”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, part I, page 12
    • In silver mail all shadowy pale, / The moon shines white, so white . . .1897, Olive Custance, “A Pause”, in Opals, London; New York, N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head, page 59

Examples of silver mail in a sentence

  • The flying-fishes in their silver mail / Rose up like stars, and pattered down like hail, […]1924, Roy Campbell, part II, in The Flaming Terrapin, New York, N.Y.: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, page 19:
  • The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.2013, John R. Fultz, “A Council of Kings”, in Seven Kings (Books of the Shaper; II), London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 395:

Questions about silver mail

What does silver mail mean?
Silver mail means rent that has been paid in money.
How do you use silver mail in a sentence?
The flying-fishes in their silver mail / Rose up like stars, and pattered down like hail, […]
What part of speech is silver mail?
Silver mail is a noun.

Words near silver mail in the dictionary

  1. silver lace vine
  2. Silver Lake
  3. Silver Lakes
  4. silver lining
  5. silver linings
  6. silver mail
  7. silver maple
  8. silver maples
  9. silver medal
  10. silver medalist
  11. silver medalists

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