downiness
- a word derived from downy.
Example Sentences
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Plum or plump, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea of softness or downiness.
From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George
The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.
From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair
There were seldom any clouds in the summer sky, and those that were there were never of that soft, high-piled white downiness that belongs to summer clouds farther south.
From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
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 Peacock, Thomas Love
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 Step, Edward
