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 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 Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Only the flamy ladies' slippers seemed appropriate to the miles of heat that flickered against the landscape.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton

She was so quick, and so lambent, like discernible fire, and so vindictive, and so rich in her dangerous flamy sensitiveness.

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

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

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)

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