Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a flake.

Etymologies

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flake +‎ -like

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Examples

  • This landscape is not painted in the smooth manner of the "Two Oaks," but with soft, flakelike touches which slightly remind one of Murillo.

    Cambridge Sketches Frank Preston Stearns 1881

  • And then realized that although it wasn't snowing, tiny flakelike things were raining down on me.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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