plovery
adjEtymology From plover + -y.
1
Full of plovers.
- The plovery Forest and the seas / That break about the Hebrides1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Andrew Lang”, in A child's garden of verses, page 117:
- And the church itself, instead of turning its back to the sea, had embraced the congregation of the waves and the plovery shore.2003, Nina FitzPatrick, Daimons, page 80:
2
Resembling or characteristic of a plover.
- […] I would be engaging you with my plovery soft accents […]1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake: