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billowy

[bil-oh-ee] / ˈbɪl oʊ i /


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Billowy, tawny grasses are a tonic to the eyes when set against a gray-and-white landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2015

For Beethoven and Mozart: Billowy black taffeta covered with net, coral jewels, a tiara transformation.

From Time Magazine Archive

Billowy lace netting was secured to the brim by two long pins topped with brass spheres.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Whatever may be the consequence, I would back against them, 'quite independently of the meaning,' this once famous stanza: Where is Cupid's crimson motion, Billowy ecstasy of woe?

From Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901 by Bradley, A. C. (Andrew Cecil)

Spreading between these streams are the wondrous, beautiful prairies, Billowy bays of grass ever rolling in shadow and sunshine, 1090 Bright with luxuriant clusters of roses and purple amorphas.

From Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study by Conover, W. F.




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