Excelsior meaning

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(archaic) Loftier, yet higher; ever upward.
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Higher; always upward.
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The definition of excelsior is shavings of wood used as packing material.

An example of excelsior is the packing material used to protect fine paintings during shipment.

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Slender, curved wood shavings used especially for packing.
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Long, thin wood shavings used for packing breakable things or as stuffing in some furniture.
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Stuffing material (as for furniture and mattresses) made of slender, curled wood shavings, as a substitute for hair.
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Origin of excelsior

From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark.

Sentence Examples

  • Until 1905 the largest known diamond in the world was the Excelsior, found in 1893 at Jagersfontein by a native while loading a truck.

  • the ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the oak make their appearance, the latter (Quercus pedunculata) reaching in isolated groups and single trees as far N.

  • Excelsior, the largest geyser, with a crater about 300 ft.

  • cordifolia, Ten.), ash (Fraxinus excelsior, L.), beech (Fagus sylvatica), elm (Ulmus campestris, U.

  • sessiliflora), of birch (Betula tomentosa), of ash (Fraxinus excelsior), and of beech (Fagus sylvatica).

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