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Webster 1913 Edition
Billowy
Bil′low-y
,Adj.
Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.
And whitening down the many-tinctured stream,
Descends the
Descends the
billowy
foam. Thomson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Billowy
BIL'LOWY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
billowy
billowy
English
Adjective
billowy (comparative billowier, superlative billowiest)
- Of or pertaining to billows; 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
References
- billowy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913