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  • Others wear the softer felt-like version in beiges, greys and blacks, many adorned with peacock feathers.

    A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009

  • Specifically, they want muskrat bellies, the felt-like fur that is practically impermeable to moisture.

    Muskrat Love: Exuberant Demand Pays Off for Great Lakes Fur Trappers Joel Millman 2012

  • Others wear the softer felt-like version in beiges, greys and blacks, many adorned with peacock feathers.

    A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009

  • The abdominal hair collects fibers from cotton shirts and directs them into the navel where they are compacted to a felt-like matter.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Some of the felt-like molded liner in the trunk of my test car had become detached in a way that was less about build quality than faulty design.

    Jaguar Builds a Primped and Pampered Monster Dan Neil 2010

  • I still remember myself as a third-grader vying to appear on radio by having memorized what felt-like a ten-page poem drat it: I was beat by another kid who memorized what might have been a twenty-page poem -- of course I'm not embittered by the experience though I remember her ugly haircut to this day...but Anyhoo...

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • I still remember myself as a third-grader vying to appear on radio by having memorized what felt-like a ten-page poem drat it: I was beat by another kid who memorized what might have been a twenty-page poem -- of course I'm not embittered by the experience though I remember her ugly haircut to this day...but Anyhoo...

    MOI INVICTUS SON 2010

  • This evergreen oak possesses leathery leaves with a dense, felt-like indumentum on the undersurface.

    Hengduan Mountains subalpine conifer forests 2007

  • Thin, felt-like polyester Christmas stockings for $12.99.

    I can feel inflation | Letter Never Sent 2007

  • Hot temperatures will make them shrink and grow rough, less soft, and thick or felt-like.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

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