Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in vowels; characterized by vowel-sounds.
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- adjective Characteristic of, or containing
vowels
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Examples
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They are not at ease in a French garb, -- nor, for that matter, in any other than their own diaphanous, sun-tinted, vowelly Provençal, unless they could find their expression in some _folk-speech_, as the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various
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He and Barton were now called upon for their names, and in return, we were favoured with the liquid and vowelly appellatives, by which our ingenuous and communicative acquaintances were respectively designated.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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So you’ve got the beginning, which is generally a consonant, and then you’ve got the middle of the sound, which is often a vowelly region.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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So you’ve got the beginning, which is generally a consonant, and then you’ve got the middle of the sound, which is often a vowelly region.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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