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flamy

American  
[fley-mee] / ˈfleɪ mi /

adjective

flamier, flamiest
  1. of or like flame.


Etymology

Origin of flamy

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

Example Sentences

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Who, good sooth, beside Have seen it well, have walked this empty world When she went steaming, and from pulpy hills Have marked the spurting of their flamy crowns?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

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 Stephens, James

The cat upon the stairs Watches with flamy eye For the sleepy one who shall unawares Let her go stealing by.

From Poems by Howells, William Dean

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

But there ought to be some roses, warm and flamy.

From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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