crow-trodden

English

Adjective

crow-trodden (comparative more crow-trodden, superlative most crow-trodden)

(poetic) Marked with crow's feet, wrinkles about the eyes.
- c. 1619–1623, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Custome of the Countrey”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv:
  Do I look as if I were crow-trodden?

References

“crow-trodden”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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