cork tree

noun

noun

cork oak

He was going home one night from one of these festive occasions, being under engagement for another in the morning, and [...] contrived to lose his way. After trying in vain to find it, he wrapped his cloak about him, and lay down for the night at the foot of a cork-tree.1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 461:

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