Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling cloth; having the texture of cloth.
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- adjective Resembling
cloth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Starting a character in PVP with a "clothy" can get so frustrating.
EzineArticles 2010
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The smell of the mans body: damp, sweaty, clothy.
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Does it actually leap of the face of the anonymous wearer like the a clothy "alien" and inflict physical pain?
Archive 2006-10-22 Newmania 2006
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Does it actually leap of the face of the anonymous wearer like the a clothy "alien" and inflict physical pain?
Beatrix Potter and Freedom Newmania 2006
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These kinds of phrases, rich in nouns and adjectives, are everywhere in Lawrence, and provide one of the reasons why readers find him clothy, heavy, perhaps a bit Germanic.
grahamsleight's Journal rozk 2005
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About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum,
Main Street 2004
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In due course the pimpled skin and sinewy limbs were restored to their clothy dignity, and the talk too put on its collar and tie.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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In due course the pimpled skin and sinewy limbs were restored to their clothy dignity, and the talk too put on its collar and tie.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Their feel is not clothy (no tienen bastante cuerpo al tacto).
Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano
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About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum, a chafing-dish, and a dozen pillows embroidered or beaded or pyrographed.
Main Street 1920
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