balmy
adjective
mild and refreshing; soft; soothing.
balminess
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a word derived from
balmy.
Example Sentences
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Then, slamming a trapdoor over them, she restores Paris to happy sanity, herself returns to contented balminess.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
All placidly, dewily, freshly, the dawn Comes stealing in pulseless tranquility on: More freely she breathes, in its balminess, though The forehead it kisses is pallid with woe.
From Beechenbrook A Rhyme of the War by Margaret J. Preston
Meanwhile, Julian had left the castle grounds and walked nervously through the forest, enjoying the velvety softness of the grass and the balminess of the air.
From Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Gustave Flaubert
