Citations:blankety

English citations of blankety

Adjective: "resembling or related to a blanket"

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• 1853 — Robert Smith Surtees, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, page 206:

  […] for the cold had struck through his person, his fine clothes being a poor substitute for his thick double-milled red coat, blankety waistcoat, and Jersey shirt.

• 1892 — A. D. T. Whitney, Homespun Yarns, Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1892), page 109:

  The soft, dark, blankety shawl stretched over my counterpane made an elastic level; […]

• 1917 — Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix, Chapter VIII:

  Later in the day, clad in an odd collection of baggy garments, he sat and warmed himself in the sun, which was fast drawing up in the form of a blankety mist the moisture from the ground.

• 1919 — Wadsworth Camp, History of the 305th Field Artillery, The Country Life Press (1919), page 53:

  A blankety snow fell and became, apparently, a part of the uniform.

• 1982 — Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast, Mariner Books (2006), →ISBN, page 88:

  It was only three in the afternoon, but the sky was blankety gray […]

• 1996 — John McCormack, Fields and Pastures New: My First Year as a Vet, G. K. Hall (1996), →ISBN, page 310:

  When I tossed the blanket atop Tiger, he became a wiggling, writhing, and biting demon, but that helped in rolling him up in the blankety mass.

• 2008 — K. L. Glanville, The Realm: The Awakening Begins, Luminations Media Group Inc (2008), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  Eventually, she came to realize she was lying on a huge cushion with a cloud pillow, like her own, behind her head, and what seemed like a huge cloud-like blankety thing covering her body up to her shoulders.

• 2008 — Martha Tod Dudman, Black Olives, Simon & Schuster (2008), →ISBN, page 134:

  I was speaking through a thick sort of blankety feeling, that covered everything, that made it impossible to think.

• 2009 — Laura Resau, The Indigo Notebook, Delacorte Press (2009), →ISBN, page 147:

  It's a floating feeling, an eyes-closed, comfy, blankety feeling, the feeling of not having to worry about anything.

• 2010 — Lisa Alpine, Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums and Tangled Hearts, Dancing Words Press (2010), →ISBN, page 167:

  The Irish people's thick accents slather around their words as rich as the dairy cream they pour on top of the delectable Irish coffees — as smooth and blankety as the dense foam on the head of a pint of Guinness.

• 2010 — Joanna FitzPatrick, In Pursuit…, La Dróme Press (2010), →ISBN, page 96:

  Remembering Ansaldi and Bobone's warnings to stay warm, she asked Jack to send her one of those long blankety scarves to wrap around her neck several times to keep out the chill.

• 2012 — Donna Alward, The Last Real Cowboy, Harlequin (2012), →ISBN, page 154:

  He hugged her close and she drank in his smell — a bit woodsy, a bit like citrus and the blankety-soft scent of sleep because she'd dragged him out of bed.