airy

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They built a bathroom -- airy, tiled and designed in the round, so as not to remind them of the bathrooms they scrubbed for small change when they lived on the streets.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or having the constitution of air.
  2. adjective High in the air; lofty.
  3. adjective Open to the air: airy chambers.

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  • Clinton thinks Obama has erred by putting too much focus on himself and on his supposedly transformational brand of politics - it's too airy, and it puts him at risk of being branded a hypocrite when, as inevitably happens, he needs to play rough. —  The Common Room
  • They built a bathroom -- airy, tiled and designed in the round, so as not to remind them of the bathrooms they scrubbed for small change when they lived on the streets. —  CNS latest top stories
  • Open and airy, the new flagship store offers a variety of items from no-VOC paint to energy monitors, to cleaning supplies to kitchenware, making it a smart resource for any eco-conscious New Yorker. —  INHABITAT
  • There are two of them," he exclaimed, as if to himself There might be a dozen, sor, 'cause there's a school for airy--airy-- airy-flyin' over by Kane's facthry, where they teaches the folks to fly that buy the machines He stood a long time, watching the sky. —  Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
  • They are mere baskets--airy, and perhaps too airy. —  To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
 

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  1. Early modern English airie, ayry, aiery, ayery (sometimes, and still poetical, aery, after L. aërius: see aery), from Middle English ayery; from air (in sense 8, from air, ult. = air) + -y.
 

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