As the OED says, to be worn “when in dishabille”.
- 02.001 and putting on his dressing-gown
“ˈdressing-gown, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
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Drench
- 04.005 Soon they were getting drenched
- 08.031 He was drenched from hair to boots,
- 14.015 though all had been drenched with water before he came.
- 14.028 He was drenched with water,
Drear
First meaning is gory and bloody and horrible! Then on the word moved to “sad”, then melancholy and dull. “Drear” is a poetic shortening.
- 02.028 Not far ahead were dreary hills,
- 03.001 and drear it looked,
- 09.012 This is the dreariest
- 10.003 Dreary as had been his imprisonment
- 14.002 and drear even
- 19.004 So sad and so dreary?
“dreary, adj.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2015. Web. 27 July 2015.
Dream-dinners
This concept is not a word attested in OED.
- 08.067 Dream-dinners aren’t any good,
Sometimes we settle for any kind of dinner we can get. I note here that Tolkien and C.S.Lewis have notably sumptuous descriptions of meals – I’ve heard it said that British authors who survived war rationing have a tendency to do so. Can anyone link me a good paper on the topic? Brian Jacques, whose Redwall banquets make my mouth water, was a child in World War II.
Drawing-room
In OED, a hyphenated word relating to delineation.
- 01.092 on the drawing-room sofa with a drink at his elbow,
- 01.095 in the drawing-room.
- 02.043 which was not drawing-room fashion at all,
“drawing, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 7 September 2017.
Drawback
- 18.008 This invisibility has its drawbacks after all.
Dragon-talk
This is not a word in OED.
- 12.069 That is the effect that dragon-talk has
Dragon-spell
It’s not an OED word, so we’re calling it a JRRT word.
- 12.064 of coming under the dragon-spell.
Dragon-slay
I do not find “dragonslay”, “dragon-slay”, “dragonslayer”, “dragon-slayer”, “dragonslayings,” or “dragon-slayings” anywhere in the most common 100,000 words of the Project Gutenberg corpus! I will double check, as this is a quite unexpected finding. Neither is it as a single word (even a two-word single entry) in the OED.
- 12.090 and they all began discussing dragon-slayings historical,
- 15.056 as the dragon-slayer,
Dragon-sickness
Much turns on this concept in the novel… but it is named only once, an original JRRT word.
- 19.044 he fell under the dragon-sickness,
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