flossy
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I would lay flowers at the grave of Ago, a flossy Italian restaurant on Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood, gone in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
Plump pods and flossy seed heads signal the end of this year’s growing season while holding the germ of the next.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
Another variety bloomed in the curves of its bones, flossy and sheer and caramel-colored.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2018
With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2013
Before it had been tacky and flossy and drab.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Back on dry land, the flossier parts of L.A. have new “lifestyle clubs,” some invitation only, all of them evidently requiring a matchmaking interview that sounds like facing a New York condo board.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
By the evidence of these two songs, Thank U, Next the album will be a heel turn compared with its predecessor—snarkier and flossier.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
The finished product was flossier, in a restrained, global way, than either El Morocco or Club "21," and could be reached by both the I.R.T. and Independent subways.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike its flossier rivals, sensible, flat-heeled, B. H. & G. talks in folksy, conversational style to the middle-income family, which it advises how to do almost everything.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then they went on to bigger and flossier names on their doors, and other changes, until the president called a halt and broke everyone back to one-pen sets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fit for the flossiest mantelpiece were such lively pieces as Annie Laurie Crawford's Dancers Martinique, Carl Walters' blue Hippopotamus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy.
From Time Magazine Archive
In one of Switzerland's flossiest nightclubs, the Palladium in Geneva, Manager Jean Rings formed a low opinion of the talent of the lady pianist playing with U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
Toole grew up nearby, at 390 Audubon Street, and the surrounding Uptown neighborhood is one of New Orleans' flossiest.
From Time Magazine Archive
You'll be in at the finish, Dan," said London Bill; "an' for the others, pick out a dozen of the flossiest coves you can find.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
