asway
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -eɪ
Adjective
[edit]asway (not comparable)
- Swaying.
- 1856, William Morris, “Svend and His Brethren”, in Atalanta’s Race and Two Other Tales from the Earthly Paradise[1], London: J. M. Dent, n.d., p. 188:
- Now the whole great terrace was a-sway with the crowd of nobles and princes, and others that were neither nobles nor princes, but true men only;
- 1934, Maurice Walsh, chapter 2, in The Road to Nowhere[2], London: W. & R. Chambers:
- The man sat loosely in the saddle, his shoulders easily asway to the gait of his mount;
- 2005, John Banville, The Sea[3], London: Picador, Part 2, p. 142:
- […] the screen was a large square of linen which any stray draught would set languorously asway,