bibulous

Example Sentences

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He was born in 1972, and was brought up in a housing project in South London, the youngest of four boys, with a strict English mother and a bibulous Irish Catholic father.

From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019

Colorado - really its farmers and ranchers - are stewards for increasingly bibulous downstream states.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2018

Dougherty’s bibulous, quick-footed turn is terrific — right at Mendenhall’s and Ingvarsson’s level.

From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2015

Less well known is his nickname, “Tommy Two Dinners,” coined after a bibulous lunch at the Gay Hussar that somehow merged into dinner.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2015

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah