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Definition of Rainbowy
1. like a rainbow [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rainbowy
Literary usage of Rainbowy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy (1897)
"That was a scientific baby ; and his first sitting-at-table on Thanksgiving Day —
yes, and his little rainbowy life — brought sunshine to every heart. ..."
2. Miscellaneous Writings: 1883-1896 by Mary Baker Eddy (1896)
"That was a scientific baby ; and his first sitting-at-table on Thanksgiving Day —
yes, and his little rainbowy life — brought sunshine to every heart. ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1846)
"... but when we have Moore's angels with their wings so very rainbowy, and their
hair so very golden, and their whole so very very nice, it is revolting. ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"As the evening was growing a little chilly, great was the display of fur-capes
and fur-cuffs, and rainbowy blanket- shawls, on the part of the ladies. ..."
5. Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge by Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Edith Coleridge (1873)
"... by optical alchemy, liquid crystal is transmuted into beryl and emerald,
forming rainbowy waterfalls, and splendid masses of blossom, all of one hue, ..."
6. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1804)
"And, in fact, the scenery of Klopstock is always illuminated by a moony twilight,
a misty glory, an intangible rainbowy lustre, which diminishes the ..."
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