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
Wherever a motelman does well, he can soon expect a rival to try to set up an even flossier motel next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Until something flossier came along, everyone agreed that the marriage of "Toodie" to David was Washington's biggest wedding of the year.
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
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
So began a four-year career as a torch singer, which took her into the spotlights of Manhattan's flossiest nightclubs, brought upwards of $1,000 a week.
From Time Magazine Archive
They send out the glossiest catalogues, give the flossiest cocktail parties.
From Time Magazine Archive
After you've been on the road for ten years a real Sunday dinner in a real home has got Sherry's flossiest efforts looking like a picnic collation with ants in the pie.
From Roast Beef, Medium by Edna Ferber
