billowy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈbɪ.ləʊ.(w)i/
- Rhymes: -ɪləʊ(w)i
Adjective
billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)
- swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58
- [...] Tiare clasped me to her vast bosom, so that I seemed to sink into a billowy sea, and pressed her red lips to mine.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 58
Translations
full of billows or surges
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References
- “billowy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.