spumy
Example Sentences
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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017
The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Spū′miness, the quality of being spumy or frothy.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
This irritated Purdy, who was spumy with the self-importance of one who has stood in the thick of the fray.
From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel
The ridges had become walls, with great frothing crests and sides that were smeared with spumy lines.
From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold
