Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
flake .
Etymologies
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flake + -like
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Examples
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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
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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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