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Definition of Pillowy
1. a. Like a pillow.
Definition of Pillowy
1. Adjective. Resembling a pillow: soft and fluffy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pillowy
1. resembling a pillow [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pillowy
Literary usage of Pillowy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829)
"... Л& when of healthful midnight bleep bereft, Thinking nn rugged hours and
fruitless toil, We put our eyes into a pillowy cleft, And see the spangly gloom ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1904)
"Beginning at the cliff end to the north, the rock for the first 30 yards is a
pillowy basalt, with tuff and limestone often occupying irregular spaces ..."
3. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1844)
"... way," " pillowy place," " grapy coats," " pinky lashes," " sweepy shape,"
&c., and one of his sonnets commences " A steeple issuing from a leafy rise ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"In general, the pillowy masses, themselves often compound, are embedded in a tuffy
... In conclusion, reference was made to other pillowy lavas containing ..."
5. Geologisches Zentralblatt (1904)
"Beginning at the clift'-end to the north, the rock for the first 30 yards is a
pillowy basalt, with tun and limestone often occupying irregular spaces ..."
6. The Silurian Rocks of Britain by Benjamin Nieve Peach, John Horne, Jethro Justinian Harms Teall (1899)
"Just above the bend, the pillowy lava is succeeded by coarse dolerite (B71),
which is there faulted against the ..."
7. Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti (1887)
"Some lines have already been quoted from this effusion, about "flowery nests,"
and "the pillowy silkiness that rests full in the speculation of the stars. ..."
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