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willowy, a.|ˈwɪləʊɪ|
[f. willow n. + -y1.]
1. Bordered, shaded, or clad with willows.
1766[Anstey] Bath Guide 121 Where the languid old Cam rolls his willowy flood. 1769Gray Install. Ode 29 Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. 1816Shelley Lett. Pr. Wks. 1888 I. 339 The willowy plain of the Rhone. 1833Tennyson Lady of Shalott iv. iii, The willowy hills and fields among. 1840L. S. Costello Summer amgst. Bocages II. 97 We had been sitting on a willowy ait, such as our own beautiful Thames presents.
2. Resembling a willow in its flexible or drooping gracefulness.
1791Wolcot (P. Pindar) Rights of Kings iv. ii. Wks. 1816 II. 188 Unceasing bends the willowy neck to ground. a1835Mrs. Hemans Shepherd-Poet of the Alps 165 A fragile form, With a willowy droop. 1864G. A. Lawrence Maurice Dering II. 32 He, who always raved about willowy waists. 1883Howells Register ii, Slender, willowy party, with a lot of blonde hair.
3. Suggesting the sound of willows agitated by the wind.
1895Meredith Amazing Marr. ix, The willowy swish of silken dresses.
4. Comb.
1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right xliv, Certain delicate-featured willowy-figured Sydney demoiselles.
Hence ˈwillowily adv.; ˈwillowiness.
1932A. Huxley Brave New World xi. 192 He put his arm round the Head Mistress's waist. It yielded, willowily. 1972Daily Tel. 13 Mar. 11 Virile shoulders, tapering downward to a more traditional willowiness, are the hallmark of the 1972 Cardin man. |