broomy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of broomy
Example Sentences
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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
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The youth with broomy stumps began to trace The kennel edge, where wheels had worn the place.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Wi’ linked hands, we took the sands A-down yon winding river; And, oh! that hour and broomy bower, Can I forget it ever?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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