Both Uses of
loam
in
Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- They began with a rich brown loam that looked almost exactly like chocolate; so like chocolate, in fact, that Edmund tried a piece of it, but he did not find it at all nice.†
Chpt 15loam = rich soil
- When the rich loam had taken the edge off their hunger, the trees turned to an earth of the kind you see in Somerset, which is almost pink.†
Chpt 15 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(loam) a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, loam can refer to a mix of soil and straw used to make bricks or plaster walls. In that form, it can also be used as a verb--for example, "She loamed the wall."