wingèd

See also: winged

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwɪŋ(ɡ)ɪd/

Adjective

wingèd (not comparable)

  1. (poetic) Alternative spelling of winged
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], lines 26-29:
      O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art / As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, / As is a wingèd messenger of heaven / Unto the white, upturnèd, wondering eyes
    • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind:
      The wingèd seeds, where they lie cold and low, / Each like a corpse within its grave, until / Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

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