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In fact, when she arrives half an hour late at the biscuit shop where we're meeting, she bounds down the stairs, peers hopefully, apologetically through the banisters, blonde ringlets shaking fluffily around her face.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013

Yet her fluffily lightweight style is at its most substantial — and most hilarious — in the zero-gravity realm that “Packing for Mars” explores.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2010

Joe Laurie, Jr., is an inveterately amusing fight manager, Lorraine Manville a pleasing prima donna, and May Cory Kitchen dances fluffily.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oldest Hen In Greenwich, Conn., a newborn chicken scampered fluffily about 30 years ago, on the estate of James G. Wessels, prominent citizen.

From Time Magazine Archive

"You pretty thing!" exclaimed Miss Florrie as Virginia joined her as coolly and femininely dressed, if not quite as fluffily, as the banker's daughter.

From The Bells of San Juan by Gregory, Jackson