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Definition of Fleeciest
1. fleecy [adj] - See also: fleecy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleeciest
Literary usage of Fleeciest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... and sleekest cows and the fleeciest of pink-eyed sheep fairly waded about in
the cloying grasses. The grain ricks seemed bursting with fullness, ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"... while the windy shreds of cloud that floated by the Adirondacks were of the
lightest and fleeciest. But there were" storms brewing somewhere. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1908)
"O but thy couch should be The fleeciest cloudlet of the summer air, The softest
billow of the summer sea, Or that forsaken nest I keep warm within my breast ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1877)
"The unhappy patients muffle up to the fleeciest extent, and respirators and red
noses are the prevailing fashion. An odd remedy this for consumption and ..."
5. The Works of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb (1871)
"He made knots of the osier twigs upon which the Cyclop commonly slept, with which
he tied the fattest and fleeciest of the rams together, three in a rank; ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"Mark the Storm of Battle and the sweet repose of the Field of Peace ; the lambs,
its emblems, lying in fleeciest softness by the disused cannon, ..."
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