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Definition of Fleecy
1. Adjective. (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing. "Napped fabrics"
Definition of Fleecy
1. a. Covered with, made of, or resembling, a fleece.
Definition of Fleecy
1. Adjective. Resembling or covered in fleece. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fleecy
1. woolly [adj FLEECIER, FLEECIEST] : FLEECILY [adv] - See also: woolly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleecy
Literary usage of Fleecy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Camera and the Pencil by Marcus Aurelius Root (1864)
"These persons, however, are here in error; for the "clear sky" they allude to
absorbs the needful light; whereas thin, fleecy clouds, by reflecting the ..."
2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Supplementary Volume[s]. by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"Some fleecy cloudlets, floating over the bright domes and towers, seemed a soft
shower of petals from a rose of paradise. The indented shore gleamed, ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"After this it must be diluted with water, and sulphuric acid poured upon it of
such a strength as to produce a fleecy precipitate of a superb yellow colour, ..."
4. Weather: A Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes from Day to Day by Ralph Abercromby (1887)
"18 is, however, a moderately successful attempt to reproduce a photograph of a
fleecy sky. There, as always, the cloud has a more or less pronounced ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"Some fleecy cloudlets, floating over the bright domes and towers, seemed a soft
shower of petals from a rose of paradise. The indented shore gleamed, ..."
6. Art and Artists. by Rosswell William Haskins (1851)
"white, fleecy clouds which are so often seen driven rapidly across a clear sky,
while their huge, irregular and jagged shadows seem pursuing each other, ..."
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