broomy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of broomy
Example Sentences
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He stands more than 6ft, has a broomy black moustache and a whoosh of gray hair combed across his forehead.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2015
A nurse with broomy hair ran slap-bang into me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Communing with himself as he rode alone over the broomy downs, King Richard reined up shortly and sent back a messenger for Milo the Abbot; so Milo flogged his old mule.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
No man of forty-five masquerade as a quarter of a century younger in this broomy, thymy air?
From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
Where windin' Tarf, by broomy knowes Wi' siller waves to saut sea rows; And mony a greenwood cluster grows, And harebells bloomin' bonnie, O!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
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