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Mellowed

adjective

Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging. Synonym: mellow. "Mellowed fruit"

Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience. Synonym: mellow. "The peace of mellow age"

Mellow

verb

(past & past part. mellowed; pres. part. mellowing)

Soften, make mellow.

Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial. Synonyms: mellow out, melt.

Make or grow (more) mellow. "The sun mellowed the fruit"

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"Mellowed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Not even the Romans to look forward to! The age-long life of the South stands for much in modern France, correcting the cruder blood which has poured in these last fifteen hundred years. As one blends wine of very old stock with newer brands, so has France been blended and mellowed. A strange cosmic feeling one had, on the top of the great building in that town older than Rome itself, of the continuity of human life and the futility of human conceit. The provincial vanity ...

— Another Sheaf • John Galsworthy

... Beck was recovering from her illness, I used to take her in my arms and walk with her in the garden by the hour together, beneath a certain wall hung with grapes, which the Southern sun was ripening: that sun cherished her little pale frame quite as effectually as it mellowed and swelled the ...

— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

... hither and thither, planning for themselves such glorious games in and out and round about their well-stocked store-houses amongst the crisp, rustling corn. Red-cheeked apples, dark-skinned winter pears ripened slowly on the orchard trees. Big bronze plums and late Victorias mellowed against the garden wall. And now and then when a breeze, gentle as the flutter of a fairy's wing, fanned the branches of the stately spreading lime tree that was comrade of the shining cedar on the lawn, there dropped on the grass border beside the tall hollyhocks a pale dry leaf, ...

— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur

... house was in sight, a beautiful old house, built of mellowed red brick, its great tower and several minor turrets mirrored in a lily-carpeted lake which surrounded it on two sides, like an exaggerated moat. "Fifteenth century," said Brederode. "But the big tower dates ...

— The Chauffeur and the Chaperon • C. N. Williamson

... knapsack upon his back, he did not stoop low enough, and gave his knapsack such a knock as almost threw him down. Fortunately there was nothing frangible inside, and so no damage was done. One of his apples was mellowed a ...

— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott

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