Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
flag (cloth emblem).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Naval engineers contrived a box in which melted ice water saturated flaglike cloths over which a fan blew hot air.
Air Conditioning 2008
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She shook her head, and began to leaf through the pages again, but so far as she could see, the slim volume held no words for spells, and nothing resembling music, not even the flaglike medieval tablature she vaguely remembered from her graduate days.
The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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At one point Vitarius slipped; such was the wind that for an instant he floated flaglike from the taut arm of Eldia.
Conan the Fearless Perry, Steve 1986
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It snatched them away again, flapping them flaglike.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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The day of my furtive visit was sober and already waning, with a breeze in which the fountains streamed flaglike, and with a gentle sky on which the population of statues above the colonnades defined themselves in leisure attitudes, so recognizable all that I am sure if they had come down and taken me by the hand we could have called one another by name without a moment's hesitation.
Roman Holidays, and Others William Dean Howells 1878
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"Heat" 1919, a smoldering flaglike field of wide bands of orange, deep yellow and olive green dotted with the figures of Stettheimer, her sisters Ettie, Carrie and Stella and their revered mother, Rosetta.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2011
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"Heat" 1919, a smoldering flaglike field of wide bands of orange, deep yellow and olive green dotted with the figures of Stettheimer, her sisters Ettie, Carrie and Stella and their revered mother, Rosetta.
NYT > Home Page By ROBERTA SMITH 2010
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Ralph Lauren, Petropoulos has produced a series of flaglike paintings, all horizontal rectangles of flag-ish proportions, rendered in oil on linen, with compositions inspired by pairings of national flags.
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Ralph Lauren, Petropoulos has produced a series of flaglike paintings, all horizontal rectangles of flag-ish proportions, rendered in oil on linen, with compositions inspired by pairings of national flags.
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The flaglike object on a pole is a solar wind experiment.
Wired Top Stories Tony Long 2009
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