Definitions
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- adverb So as to
nestle .
Etymologies
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nestling + -ly
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Examples
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It was pleasant beyond words to sit nestlingly in a pluffy chair, and hear about all the little lightly-treated scholarly day-before-yesterday things her father had used to talk of.
The Rose-Garden Husband Margaret Widdemer 1931
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Marjorie, settling herself more nestlingly in her corner of the window-seat; "and so when he said somewhere in the letter that anything he could ever do for me he would do on the wings of the wind, I wrote back and said yes, he could buy two tickets for the church fair.
I've Married Marjorie Margaret Widdemer 1931
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