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broomy

American  
[broo-mee] / ˈbru mi /

adjective

broomier, broomiest
  1. covered with or abounding in broom.

    a golden broomy expanse along the trail.


Etymology

Origin of broomy

First recorded in 1640–50; broom + -y 1


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He stands more than 6ft, has a broomy black moustache and a whoosh of gray hair combed across his forehead.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2015

A nurse with broomy hair ran slap-bang into me.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

No man of forty-five masquerade as a quarter of a century younger in this broomy, thymy air?

From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions

I do not have any Persian trees with the typical broomy bunch, as is so often seen in the Japanese walnut, and its hybrids.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association

And from the door one can see the green fields and broomy knowes where Maisie and I had played so long.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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