OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 24253

sallow

/ˈsæl.oʊ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
salce cabruno • sauce cabruno • zargatillo
A European willow, Salix caprea, that has broad leaves, large catkins and tough wood.
And fast beside a little brooke did pas Of muddie water, that like puddle stanke, By which few crooked sallowes grew in ranke:
c. 1553, Humphrey Llwyd (translator), The Treasury of Healthe, London: William Coplande, Remedies, Chapter 44, I[f] a man eate the flowers of a sallow or wyllowe tree, or of a Popl…
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