Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Affording shelter.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Affording shelter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare Affording shelter.
Etymologies
- shroud + -y? (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In that glimpse in the mirror, she had seen that her own face, above a delicate shroudy scarf with long flying ends, rose like some tired hothouse orchid, beautiful still, but fading, paling, passing; and she hated Gay's youth and freshness with a poignant hatred that was like the piercing of a stiletto.”
“Between the farm and the far hills arose a curious line of shroudy blue, seeming to hover round the estate, mystically encircling it, and cutting it off from the rest of the desert.”
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On The Road
Words gathered while reading On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
jailkid, lovething, worklife, longbody, benny, lout, dingledody, intellectualness, huaraches, twink, pisscall, buddhistic and 109 more...
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Kerouac
Words from Kerouac's work.
joual, passaic, quirt, fellahin, hoorair, hincty, vag, orgone, huzzahed, idjit, shroudy, forgather and 17 more...
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