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billowy - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
billowie ocean,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective billows ; swelling or swollen into large waves ; full of billows or surges ; resembling billows.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
Etymologies
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billow + -y
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Also popular are lightweight and sheer fabrics, such as billowy chiffons, silks and satins "fashioned into exquisite draping or dramatic ruffles," Valerie Joseph says.
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_r_, or _l_, to elide the liquids is to secure a kind of billowy music of
Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
And her words are the ones I hear as my colleague talks, and I stare at the billowy clouds below.
Stuart Dow: Growing Pains: A Dad's Struggle Stuart Dow 2011
We sat outside underneath breaking billowy clouds and where the sun felt absolutely delicious.
Patzcuaro Bonito! 2009
A white shirtdress with touches of black, silver and aqua was particularly billowy in shape.
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And her words are the ones I hear as my colleague talks, and I stare at the billowy clouds below.
Stuart Dow: Growing Pains: A Dad's Struggle Stuart Dow 2011
The details of the scandals may be ambiguous, but the worried expressions, their hidden shames, all presented on a tussled billowy canvas.
Intersomnolence Wendy Wimmer 2011
We sat outside underneath breaking billowy clouds and where the sun felt absolutely delicious.
Patzcuaro Bonito! 2009
The British designer sent out fetching variations on his hallmark baroque, layered silhouette: Cropped trench coats cinched tight at the waist were worn over billowy harem pants in Japanese prints or multitiered chiffon skirts.
Luxury Is A La Mode At Celine, Galliano, Givenchy & Akris (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
I changed it to a simulation of utter simplicity: floating, blocky shapes, suspended against an uninterrupted, 360-degree blue sky, with a few billowy clouds to make for perfect flying weather.
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brtom commented on the word billowy
Cushion me soft ... rock me in a billowy drowse ... Whitman, Song of Myself
December 9, 2006
milosrdenstvi commented on the word billowy
The longest and only 7-letter alphaliteral that I actually recognised as a word. (Also bellowy, which I discount because it sounds stupid, and beefily, which I discount because I don't want to have to write this twice on two words. aegilops is the actual longest.)
February 6, 2010
bilby commented on the word billowy
Not a bad word. Probably tattooed on Whitman's arms.
February 6, 2010