Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Swelling or swelled into large waves; full of billows or surges; having an appearance or effect as of billows: as, “the billowie ocean,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
billows ;swelling or swollen into largewaves ; full of billows orsurges ; resembling billows.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by great swelling waves or surges
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
unknown title 2009
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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
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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
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We sat outside underneath breaking billowy clouds and where the sun felt absolutely delicious.
Patzcuaro Bonito! 2009
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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
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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
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We sat outside underneath breaking billowy clouds and where the sun felt absolutely delicious.
Patzcuaro Bonito! 2009
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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
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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.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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