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NEW-MADE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does new-made mean?
• NEW-MADE (adjective)
The adjective NEW-MADE has 1 sense:
1. newly made
Familiarity information: NEW-MADE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Newly made
Context example:
the aroma of new-made bread
Similar:
fresh (recently made, produced, or harvested)
Context examples
All the married people take hands and dance round the new-made husband and wife, as the Germans do, while we bachelors and spinsters prance in couples outside! cried Laurie, promenading down the path with Amy, with such infectious spirit and skill that everyone else followed their example without a murmur.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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