- 03.004 in his favourite sitting-room
Hyphenated just so.
“ˈsitting-room, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/180515. Accessed 21 September 2017.
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Silver-steel
- 13.037 It was of silver-steel,
…which the Elves call mithril.
I am fascinated to learn that silver steel has its own, albeit unhyphenated, sub-entry.
silver steel n. a fine steel containing a small amount of silver.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 248 Silver steel, having the advantage of euphony.., becomes a popular denomination in the market.
“silver, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179788. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Silver-hafted
This sounds too soft to me. Perhaps the haft is inlaid with silver? Or perhaps it is silver-steel, known also as mithril.
- 13.035 with a silver-hafted axe
“Silver-hilted” in an OED word, but silver-hafted is not.
Silver-grey
My favourite colour.
- 07.116 green, blue, red, silver-grey, yellow, white;
Hyphenated just so.
“silver-grey, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179806. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Side-passage
- 05.120 side-passages opened,
Thought this concept has an OED sub-entry, it is always two words, never hyphenated in OED.
“side, n.1.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179258. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Side-door
- 01.117 especially when I remembered the existence of a Side-door.
- 01.125 I see now they must have had a private Side-door
- 01.140 After all there is the Side-door,
This word can be seen as hyphenated in its examples in OED.
“side door, n. and adj.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179279. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Shut-in
- 11.023 They seemed to love the little shut-in bay
Hyphenated in OED.
“ˈshut-in, adj. and n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/179057. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Shoreland
This word descends from Middle English and Middle Low German and Middle Dutch, “land washed by the sea” and may be related to “shear” as in sharp division.
- 14.017 Soon he would set all the shoreland woods ablaze
“shore, n.1.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 29 July 2015.
Seed-cake
- 01.035 seed-cake, if you have any.’
- 01.036 to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes
- 01.047 the seed-cakes were gone,
Pleas enjoy this sixteenth-century seed cake recipe! Apparently any flavorful seed, such as caraway, anise, or cardamom is called for.
Hyphenated just so.
“ˈseed-cake, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, June 2017, http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/174759. Accessed 21 September 2017.
Sea-sighing
This work evokes John Masefield’s Sea Fever for me, or perhaps Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem Crossing the Bar, which I know set to a beautiful tune.
- 06.045 There was no wind that evening to bring even a sea-sighing
This word is not found in OED.
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