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Billowy

adjective

Of or pertaining to billows; swelling or swollen into large waves; full of billows or surges; resembling billows.

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Now I lorded above this billowy sea, along with myriad mountaintops – like VIPs in a secret realm.

While we couldn't possibly comment on KGMDMusic's "It's like Florence singing in tune!", there is definitely something that borders on the billowy about Hannah Reid's vocals.

Real enthusiasts spend days in the desert spotting locomotives; the truly hard core go in winter when temperatures plunge far below freezing, showing off the steam at its billowy best.My brief trip, helped by a local resident who knew the mine's unpaved and unmarked roads and seemed indifferent to signs prohibiting non-mine vehicles, kept me below the authorities' radar screen.

Growing up in the city's hillier northern fringes, your correspondent learned from an early age to recognise the various species of cloud from the low-lying layered sheets of stratus, up through the billowy cumulus forms, to the high-flying tufted wisps of the cirrus family.

About 1900 John created one of her best-known paintings, a three-quarter-length self-portrait in which she wears a billowy bronze-toned blouse, holds her hands to one hip, and confidently looks out at the viewer.

Its billowy masses of tiny, fragrant, pink, white, or red blooms are borne on stems sometimes reaching 90 cm (3 feet).

It's a heavenly, billowy cloud of ewes' milk mousse, with blood orange semi-dried and in a jelly, with a dollop of fennel sorbet.

They have a wonderful quality about them – wet, billowy, pervasive, chilling.

Stubby Miss Preston is a Smith woman; her favorite hymn is No. 117 (Bunyan's "He who would valiant be"); she cries easily, like her billowy blue-eyed counterpart at Forest Ridge, Madame McQueenie, the acting Reverend Mother; they are both fond of taking repentant girls onto their slippery laps — Miss Preston's, usually silken in the evening, being worse.

Tells about his Beef Trust, the famous line of billowy chorus girls, none of whon, he claimed, weighed less than 190 pounds.

On most Saturday nights, the Society's plain space is transformed into an Andalusian tablao: white tablecloths, chorizo tapas, and aficionadas dressed in billowy black dresses with red carnations in their hair.

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