undulant

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Only their eyes are ancient and alone The street crawls undulant, Like a river addled With its hot tide of flesh That ever thickens.

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  1. adjective Resembling waves in occurrence, appearance, or motion.

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  • It was a sea of flesh, undulant, a writhing of limbs on acres of tumbling mats, a glistening of skin, flashes of teeth where men climbed ropes, spun on leather horses, or flung themselves up crossbars to be seized down in the tidal flux of lamentations and muffled cries. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 03 - September 1995
  • Because of an attack of undulant fever, he was sent for recuperation at the Naval Hospital in Newport in 1944. —  BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
  • Sarah's Words: speckled rapt misconstrued particle undulant stimulating halcyon illusion depth kismet —  qarrtsiluni
  • There was about her form and motion an indefinable gracefulness that was like the charm of this hazy, undulant, moonlit prairie, and this blue sky seen through the lace of thin, milk-white clouds. —  The Mystery of Metropolisville
  • Only their eyes are ancient and alone The street crawls undulant, Like a river addled With its hot tide of flesh That ever thickens. —  The Ghetto and Other Poems
 

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  1. = French ondulant = Spanish ondulante, from New Latin *undulan(t-)s, present participle of *undulare, undulate: see undulate.
 

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/ˈəndjulənt/
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