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Meanings of fleecy in English

(Of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing.

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Usage of fleecy in English
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And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
The Tale of Snowball Lamb
2
The sun was shining in a sky flecked with soft, fleecy clouds.
Chatterbox, 1906
3
Through the fleecy rolls here and there tongues of flame shot fiercely.
How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's / And Other...
4
Between routes, he kept his fingers warm in the fleecy hand-warmer pockets.
Climbing Magazine
5
The ex-coachman's feet sank into rugs as fleecy and deep as snowdrifts.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
6
He looked at the fleecy cloud, and, falling into her humour, said-
Dawn
7
Why do you suppose it was made so velvet soft and fleecy?
The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten
8
It is a fleecy cloud, an incomparable quilt, softer than any swan's-down.
The Life of the Spider
9
Dost thou not see fleecy lambs playing on hillsides of ruddy lilies!
The Coming of the King
10
I let it blow against my fleecy side; and I never feel it.
The Tale of Snowball Lamb
11
There were a host of fleecy little clouds in the sky.
The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck: A Comedy of Limitations
12
The eye is bewildered by the soft fleecy labyrinth before it.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
13
The sun appeared and disappeared again among the fleecy slow-sailing clouds.
The Child of Pleasure
14
They were skimming along in a sea of fleecy, white mist.
Dick Hamilton's Airship; Or, A Young Millionaire in the Clouds
15
It is evening, and thin fleecy clouds flit along the heavens.
An Outcast; Or, Virtue and Faith
16
Gibson points to sequins and shiny fabrics, fluffy dressing gowns and fleecy hoodies.
Radio NZ
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