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Definition of Ivy-covered
1. Adjective. Overgrown with ivy. "Harvard's ivied buildings"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ivy-covered
Literary usage of Ivy-covered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historic and Monumental Rome: A Handbook for the Students of Classical and by Charles Isidore Hemans (1874)
"... rising to completeness (1534), caused the outer encrustations of fine brickwork
to be pealed off from the loftier masses of the old, ivy-covered walls. ..."
2. Passages from the English Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1870)
"... "a mountainous country, in the distance a cascade tumbling over a precipice,
and in front a lake; on one side an ivy-covered cottage," — this dry detail ..."
3. Glances on the Wing at Foreign Lands by James M. Hoyt (1872)
"Ivy covered Ruins. Description of the Abbey. Killarney Village Church. Afternoon
Service. Evening Service in Mission Chapel. The Preacher. Gap Dunloe. ..."
4. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"The ivy-covered summer-house on the mound on the south-west side, and which forms
a conspicuous object in fig. IE1.', commands a good view of the flower ..."
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