Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With a rustling sound.

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  • adverb With a rustling sound.

Etymologies

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rustling +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The tall grass waves gently and rustlingly to the breeze; and down upon it settles the moonlight, in a dim silver-gossamer veil, like that which to the mind's eye is thrown over the mountains and ruins and castles of the Old World, by the high-born daring and graces of chivalry, the wand of Genius, and the lapse of solemn years.

    The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various

  • Yet in a moment, when she had come all rustlingly and fragrantly close, "It would captivate me," he handsomely added.

    The Outcry Henry James 1879

  • Through the glass panels of street doors and beneath half-drawn window shades the early-evening wayfarer may perceive a feeble glow as of illuminating gas turned low; but by ten o'clock these lights have begun to disappear, indicating -- or so, at all events, I chose to believe -- that certain old ladies wearing caps and black silk gowns with old lace fichus held in place by ancient cameos, have proceeded slowly, rustlingly, upstairs to bed, accompanied by their cats.

    American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' Julian Street 1913

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