downy
adjective
of the nature of or resembling down; fluffy; soft.
downiness
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a word derived from
downy.
Example Sentences
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Never was a bed so sweetly smoothed to the downiness of a swan's breast!
From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The downiness noticed on the underside of the Bullace leaves is here restricted to the ribs of the leaf.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Edward Step
You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty; fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom.
From Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
"A baby that's loved and taken care of is just nothing but fine soft lawns and white downiness with the scent of fresh violets under leaves in the rain."
From Robin by Frances Hodgson Burnett
And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence.
From Hauntings by Vernon Lee
