Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affording shelter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Affording shelter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Affording
shelter .
Etymologies
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shroud + -y?
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Examples
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In that glimpse in the mirror, she had seen that her own face, above a delicate shroudy scarf with long flying ends, rose like some tired hothouse orchid, beautiful still, but fading, paling, passing; and she hated Gay's youth and freshness with a poignant hatred that was like the piercing of a stiletto.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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Between the farm and the far hills arose a curious line of shroudy blue, seeming to hover round the estate, mystically encircling it, and cutting it off from the rest of the desert.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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