forest-born

adj

forest-born

adj
1

Dated, Obsolete, Rare Having been born in a forest.

  • The walls are still standing, which once resounded with the accents of the forest-born Demosthenes.1837, various authors, Southern Literary Messenger, page 238:
  • ...to guide and direct the united energies of the colonists, made one people, by common sufferings, and common dangers; forest-born orators to rouse in the most lethargic and unconquerable spirit of resistance to Tyranny.1841, Henry Stuart Foote, Texas and the Texans, page 120:

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