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oaken
Part of speech: Adjective Usage examples "oaken":- Thick old walls, little windows in deep recesses; low ceilings and high ceilings, for different parts of the house are unlike each other; most beautiful dark oaken wainscotings, carved deliciously, and grown black with time; and big, hospitable chimney- pieces, with fires of English soft coal. - "A Red Wallflower", Susan Warner.
- " I was in the house, sir," she continued, " when the poor doctor was carried home dead- in his sitting- room with my- with little Madaline- and when I saw the confusion that followed upon his death, I thought of the papers in the oaken box; and, without saying a word to any one, I took it and hid it under my shawl." - "Wife in Name Only", Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay).
- I shall rub you down with an oaken towel, my boy, I shall. - "The Adventures of Roderick Random", Tobias Smollett.