fleecy
adjective
covered with, consisting of, or resembling a fleece or wool.
fleeciness
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a word derived from
fleecy.
Example Sentences
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Although our eyes are shut, we seem to see a blank whiteness; and, feeling nothing but a soft fleeciness, we doubt whether we be not the Olympian cloud which visited lo.
From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor
The clouds seem of more than northern fleeciness, and hang over the peaks like smoke, or float lazily from valley to valley, giving varying hues to the beautiful landscape.
From Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound by Victor St. Clair
Split felt the cold fleeciness of new-fallen snow on her face, down her neck, up her sleeves.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
Only the white fleeciness of morning mist had flitted sometimes over her summer-sky, deepening the blue.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various
"We shan't be able to observe anything but this fleeciness until we get to Mars."
From Through Space to Mars Or the Longest Journey on Record by Roy Rockwood
