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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On the floors of the rooms were jaguar skins, with wonderful spots, and thick monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne
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
Feathery white panicles of the starry campion, whose protruding stamens and fringed petals give it a certain fleeciness, are dainty enough for spring; by midsummer we expect plants of ranker growth and more gaudy flowers.
From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan
Split felt the cold fleeciness of new-fallen snow on her face, down her neck, up her sleeves.
From The Madigans by Orson Lowell
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
