fulgurous

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Whose fulgurous vans about the world had blown

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  1. adjective Emitting flashes of lightning.
  2. adjective Emitting flashes similar to lightning.

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  • Whose fulgurous vans about the world had blown —  The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
  • She was tall, dark, sallow, lithe, with a strange moodiness of heart and a recessive, fulgurous gleam in her chestnut-brown, almost brownish-black eyes. —  The Titan
  • "The naturalists say they are generated in the sky by fulgurous exhalation conglobed in a cloud by the circumfused humor." —  The Book of the Damned
  • December to have been the day of getting one's leg bitten thrice over; and that, in bed next morning, -- stiff, smarting, fretful against the sad ape-tricks and offences of this life, -- before getting up to one's Works and Correspondences, the angry similitude had shot, slightly fulgurous and consolatory, athwart the gloom of one's mood? —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19
 

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  1. Latin fulgur, lightning; see fulgurate + -ous.

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  1. from Latin fulgur, lightning, + -ous.
 

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/ˈfəlgjurəs/
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