ripply

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The copperplate lines are so exact they mimic the individual venation of feathers; the neck of a gyrfalcon takes on all the ripply realism of moiréd silk.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2023

Zevin, 45, with her penetrating gaze and her shock of ripply black hair, doesn’t look tired but oh, she is.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2023

In the Obama childhood snapshots I’ve seen, the waves look just right, Kailua-ish, frothier than at any of the ripply Honolulu beaches his mother and Gramps could have taken him to.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2011

Titian's Toilet was supposedly by his son Orazio, although the supple shoulder line and illusory intermingling of the young woman's ripply tresses with her fluid sleeve reveals the artist's lustrous trademark.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had reached the ripply patch of water.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt