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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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 Sinclair Lewis
The habit of the shrub is densely bushy, and the foliage has a greyish green colour from its downiness.
From Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. by John Wood
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
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 Constance Fenimore Woolson
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 George Bell
