a. Also 5 vmbreuse. [ad. F. ombreux, † umbreux, or L. umbrōs-us: cf. UMBROSE a.]
1. Lying in the shade; shady, shadowed.
1480. Caxton, Myrr., III. i. 130. The Sonne … maketh the day to growe byfore hym, and on that other parte the erthe is vmbreuse & derke by hynde hym. Ibid. (1480), Ovid’s Met., X. i. The Kynge and the quene comanded that Erudice shold be called forth, which was in the umbrous valeye.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 334. It grows … in margins of fields, that are not umbrous.
1821. T. G. Wainewright, Ess. & Crit. (1880), 227. A meadow … umbrous with orange and cedar trees.
2. fig. (See quot.) Obs.–1
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 108 b/1. He was umbrouse or shadewous, that is to saye he was colde and refrigerat fro all concupyscence of the flesshe.
