loamily

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English

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Etymology

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From loamy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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loamily (comparative more loamily, superlative most loamily)

  1. In a loamy manner.
    • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:
      The water runs down with a strong, sharp stickle, and then has a sudden elbow in it, where the small brook trickles in; and on that side the bank is steep, four or it may be five feet high, overhanging loamily; []
    • 2009, Eberekpe Whyte, Songs of Hearts, page 56:
      Loamily dark the soil is, / Nourished by the dews of the heaven / Cultivated by the fertility / Of the edible falling angels' wings []