dædal

dædal

1. Alternative spelling of daedal
   • 1777, Thomas Warton, “Ode III”, in The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, and Poet Laureate, volume I, page 136:

     Here ancient Art her dædal fancies play’d
     In the quaint mazes of the criſped roof ;
     In mellow glooms the ſpeaking pane array’d,
     And rang’d the cluſter’d colum, maſſy proof.

• la de da, la-de-da