downiness

Example Sentences

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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

And above the organ rose the notes of a voice; high, soft, enveloped in a kind of downiness, like a cloud of incense, and which ran through the mazes of a long cadence.

From Hauntings by Lee, Vernon

The variety may also be known by the downiness of the young leaves, the calyx-tube, and the stalks.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

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

Never was a bed so sweetly smoothed to the downiness of a swan's breast!

From Vision House by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)