gleamy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of gleamy
Example Sentences
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Sixty-five minutes later the gleamy, purple-backed fish was gaffed, pulled over the launch's freeboard.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he probably would not know why this foreigner's tone was so cordial, his eye so gleamy, his smile so quick.
From Time Magazine Archive
The kitchen around her, which was as big as Hazel’s living room, looked like the sort of kitchen you see on TV, all matching and gleamy.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
One evening, while she was thus placed, she was surprised to see a gleamy figure, as of some aerial being, hovering, as it were, against the arched window in the end of the Anabaptist chapel.
From Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Scott, Walter, Sir
In her gleamy hair she sat and wept; In the dreamful moon they lay and slept; The shadows above, and the bodies below, Lay and slept in the moonbeams slow.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
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