What is "fleecy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fleecy mean in English? Meaning of fleecy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fleecy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fleecy": (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing

Adjective

  • Meaning: (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing
  • Example: a dress of brushed cotton a fleecy lining napped fabrics
  • Synonyms: brushed fleecy napped
  • Similar: soft
  • Adjective: Resembling or covered in fleece. 1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein, chapterIV: 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. 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs: Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.1908, W. B. M. Ferguson, Zollenstein, chapterIV: 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.1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs: Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.
  • Synonyms:

    flocculent, fluffy, hairy, hirsute, shaggy, soft, pilose, floccose, lanose, pileous, whiskered,

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