beechen
adj/ˈbiːt͡ʃən/
Etymology From Middle English bechen, from Old English bēċen (“made of beechwood, beechen”), Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn, equivalent to beech + -en. Cognate with Dutch beuken (“beechen”).
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Consisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech tree.
- [T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, // A beechen cup brimming with milky foam, […]1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 105:
- Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves, And one by one with sighing sound Whispering fell the beechen leaves In the wintry woodland wavering.1988, J.R.R. Tolkien, Song of Beren and Lúthien: