fleecy

From fleece + -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːsi/

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fleecy (comparative fleecier, superlative fleeciest)

1. Resembling or covered in fleece.
   • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the loss of the Steam Boat Ætna, page 96:

     Her path was on the briny deep;
     Yet no white sail propell'd her course,
     Nor measured oar with graceful sweep
     Urged her to stem the billow's force;
     Self-moved, with fleecy track she past,
     Disdaining in her pride
     To woo the breeze or shun the blast,
     Or wait the rolling tide;...

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights‎^[1]:

     {...} turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs:

     Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.