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Definition of Blousy
1. blowsy [adj BLOUSIER, BLOUSIEST] : BLOUSILY [adv] - See also: blowsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blousy
Literary usage of Blousy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"... knew Master Clive, and smiled at him from under her blousy curl-papers,
admitting the two gentlemen into Sir Brian's dining-room, where they proposed to ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... knew Master Clive, and smiled at him from under her blousy curl-papers,
admitting the two gentlemen into Sir Brian's dining-room, where they proposed to ..."
3. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"and the women and children, with their long, blousy, uncombed hair, seem the
proper inmates of the ..."
4. Women and the Trades,Pittsburgh,1907-1908 by Elizabeth Beardsley Butler (1909)
"In the corner of the room near one window, where the ceiling slants, a group of
women in blousy, ill-fitting wrappers bend over ..."
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