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# rushen

«rushen» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **made of rushes** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

made of rushes

### part of speech

adjective, old word (made of rushes); here used as a name

### meaning for a pupil

Made of rushes, the tough stalks of marsh plants; here it is the name of a girl who wears a coat of rushes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/rushen/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say made of rushes. Here it is used as a nickname, not as an ordinary adjective.

### examples

- "But what will become of the dinner?" said Rushen Coatie. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/rushen/#x1)
- So they called her Rushen Coatie, and made her sit in the kitchen nook, amid the ashes. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/rushen/#x2)
- The daughter soon found out that the red calf gave food to Rushen Coatie, and told her mother. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/rushen/#x3)

### tests

rate: word (≥3 uses, never in EWT or ≥10× EWT, Wiktionary: first sense archaic); corpora 17 (Torah 0, tales 17, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rushen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/R/rushen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.