fleecy
adj/ˈfliːsi/
Etymology From fleece + -y.
1
Resembling or covered in fleece.
- Her path was on the briny deep; Yet no white sail propell'd her course, Nor measured oar with graceful sweep Urged her to stem the billow's force; Self-moved, with fleecy track she past, Disdaining in her pride To woo the breeze or shun the blast, Or wait the rolling tide;...1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the loss of the Steam Boat Ætna, page 96:
- {...} turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights:
2 more examples
- So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs:
- Derived terms
- fleecily, fleeciness