flamy

American  

[fley-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

Example Sentences

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flamy flamier

The jostling, swaying lines on either side boil, and roar, and dash their flamy spray, two hostile billows of a fiery ocean.

From The Battle of Gettysburg by Haskell, Frank Aretas

She was a little oddity, with her fierce, fair hair like spun glass sticking out in a flamy halo round the apple-blossom face and the black eyes, and the men liked an oddity.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Say, what impels, amidst surrounding snow Congeal’d, the crocus, flamy bud to glow?

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry

It was a child with a face like a bud of apple-blossom, and glistening fair hair like thistle-down sticking out in straight, wild, flamy pieces, and very dark eyes.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

At length, when life seemed lost for aye, They saw a splendour as of day, A wondrous forest, fair and bright, Where golden trees shot flamy light.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

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 Glanville, Ernest