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glade
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Definition:1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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The sound of hoof beats 'cross the glade,
Good folk, lock up your son and daughter.
Beware the deadly flashing blade,
unless you want to end up shorter.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1 (song lyrics, first stanza)
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Everything was quiet in the small glade except for the faint rush of wind through the leaves of the rowan tree. I closed my eyes and listened to it for some time.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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The place fixed on for the stand-shooting was not far above a stream in a little aspen copse. On reaching the copse, Levin got out of the trap and led Oblonsky to a corner of a mossy, swampy glade, already quite free from snow.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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the whole anchorage had fallen into shadow—the last rays, I remember, falling through a glade of the wood and shining bright as jewels on the flowery mantle of the wreck.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1882)
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