downiness

Example Sentences

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The poplar foliage had the downiness of a Corot arbor; the green and silver trunks were as candid as the birches, as slender and lustrous as the limbs of a Pierrot.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

You shall receive it, Miss O'Carroll, with all the gloss of novelty; fresh as a ripe green-gage in all the downiness of its bloom.

From Nightmare Abbey by Peacock, Thomas Love

"A baby that's loved and taken care of is just nothing but fine soft lawns and white downiness with the scent of fresh violets under leaves in the rain."

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

There were seldom any clouds in the summer sky, and those that were there were never of that soft, high-piled white downiness that belongs to summer clouds farther south.

From Anne by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

Plum or plump, as applied to a bed, would certainly convey the idea of softness or downiness.

From Notes and Queries, Number 218, December 31, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George