fleecy
Americanadjective
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fleecier,
comparative
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fleeciest
superlative
adjective
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Origin of fleecy
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Sietsema also wrote that "it refused to lie flat, glistening with fat in its snappy natural casing, crammed into a freshly baked potato bun of perfect fleecy texture and density. It’s giant."
From Salon ● May 8, 2024
If you search #cloverlawns on TikTok, you’ll be flooded with photos and videos of fleecy, ethereal-looking lawns.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 20, 2023
She looks middle-aged, with a fleecy perm and wearing a gray hoodie underneath a black blazer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2023
Enjoy it while you can: In a few million years, the nebula will be gone, evaporated by its fierce stellar progeny like a fleecy windblown cirrus cloud on a summer afternoon,
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Meanwhile at Kirke’s hands the rest were gently bathed, anointed with sweet oil, and dressed afresh in tunics and new cloaks with fleecy linings.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In 2010, the intrepid J. Kenji López-Alt over at Serious Eats broke down the science behind velvety purées, versus fleecier mounds.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
That was my family last December, so wistful for something frostier and fleecier than the Middle East climate where we lived that we opted for a Nordic winter break in Sweden.
From Washington Post
The ranchers bantered in the sidelong West Texas way, good-humored insult frisking and woofing just at the edges of the talk, like a sheepdog nipping at the fleecier pleasantries.
From Time Magazine Archive
It looked as if the whole world had been wrapped in a blanket of the whitest, fleeciest, shiningest wool.
From Maida's Little Shop by Inez Haynes Gillmore
Then the sky turned faintly pink and in the distance the thinnest, fleeciest clouds stretched in thin bands across the horizon and close down to it, becoming every moment more and more pink.
From The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley
And the snowflakes fell softly, silently, and covered them with a shining robe of fleeciest white.
From Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German by Millicent Schwab Bender
By and by the blue was to conquer, and the sportive winds were to let loose and drive before them the whitest and fleeciest of clouds, but always far up in high heaven.
From Windyridge by W. Riley
When, in spring, the trees flower, it is as though fleeciest masses of cloud faintly tinged by sunset had floated down from the highest sky to fold themselves about the branches.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Lafcadio Hearn
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