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silver-tongued, a.
[f. silver n. 17.]
Having a pleasant or melodious utterance; sweet-spoken; eloquent.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 61 Siluer-tongu'd Smith, whose well tun'd stile hath made thy death the generall teares of the Muses. 1618Vicars Commend. Verses in Sylvester's Wks. (Grosart) I. 10/2 Admired Silver-Tongued Sylvester. 1713J. Warder True Amazons 17 Relying too much upon the silver-tongued Virgil. 1827Pollok Course of Time vii. (1860) 178 Silver-tongued Hope Promised another harvest. 1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xv. 150 He—good, silver-tongued man—heeded not the miserable jest. |