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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in oysters; smelling or tasting like oysters.

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Examples

  • If I were going to make something like this, I'd try to figure out how to make interchangeable sashes; I'd want a bluey-green one, and a yallery-orange one, and even for the height of sophistication an oystery-gray/ivory one.

    February 2007 2007

  • If I were going to make something like this, I'd try to figure out how to make interchangeable sashes; I'd want a bluey-green one, and a yallery-orange one, and even for the height of sophistication an oystery-gray/ivory one.

    Sashtastic! - A Dress A Day 2007

  • I have no desire to live and work there at the moment - that's for sure - because I have this big oystery world out in front of me, and my brain has well and truly been drained from my hometown.

    Archive 2004-09-01 2004

  • I have no desire to live and work there at the moment - that's for sure - because I have this big oystery world out in front of me, and my brain has well and truly been drained from my hometown.

    Back to me. 2004

  • Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Then the thornwing's glide cut through the interior of a cloud, and the oystery blankness obscured sight for a long time.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • Hellespontian, eminent most of oystery sea-shores.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • The road ran to the bank of the River Pocomoke, where a ferry was still maintained to the opposite shore and the Virginia land of Accomac, and the cold tide, without a sail, went winding to an oystery estuary of the bay, where the mud at the bottom was so soft that vessels aground in it could still continue sailing, as on the muggy globe that Noah came to shore in.

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • Seeing your hand upon the cover of a letter which he brought, I immediately blessed him, presented him with a glass of whisky, inquired after his family (they are all well), and opened the despatch with a moist and oystery twinkle in my eye.

    The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3 (of 3), 1836-1870 Charles Dickens 1841

  • If you're going to be eating raw oysters, always taste your first one unadorned, just to get a true sense of its flavor, texture, and oystery loveliness.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Claire Thomas 2011

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