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Cottony   Listen
adjective
Cottony  adj.  
1.
Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
2.
Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.





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"Cottony" Quotes from Famous Books



... the four live sparrows which were offered to it at the full moon and at every new moon. Its handsome skin, covered like the firmament with golden spots upon a perfectly black ground, was now yellow, relaxed, wrinkled, and too large for its body. A cottony mouldiness extended round its head; and in the corners of its eyelids might be seen little red specks which appeared to move. Salammbo would approach its silver-wire basket from time to time, and would draw ...
— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert


Words linked to "Cottony" :   cotton


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