flamy

American  

[flay-mee] / ˈfleɪ mi /

adjective

flamier, flamiest

1. of or like flame.

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Etymology

Origin of flamy

First recorded in 1485–95; flame + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

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flamy flamier

The flamy light flung itself up into the calm zenith; there it met the still heaven-color, and the sky was tender with saffron-touched blue.

From The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Yet would'st thou more? in yonder cloud behold, Whose sarsenet skirts are edg'd with flamy gold, A matchless youth! his nod these worlds controls, Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

Those whose duty it was sped swiftly downwards to find Brien of the O'Brien nation; and while they were gone, all in vain the seraph Cuchulain crushed flamy barbs against that bosom of doom.

From Here are Ladies by James Stephens

The fire was no longer flamy: and it was sinking.

From Sea and Sardinia by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

At the last, shaken by the light breeze that sprung up, little flamy darts from the oak whirled into the grave with her.

From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin

Then he riz his head and stired straight fer me, his eyes gitting flamier as he looked, an’ his tail all on the jerk.

From Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

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