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- adjective reminiscent of
cotton wool
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Examples
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A spray of torn leaves whirling from the tree tops, the toss of a broken branch, showed the range correct; and before the first rounds 'solid white cotton-wooly balls of smoke had thinned and disappeared, puff-puff-puff the shrapnel commenced to burst in clouds over the wood.
Action Front Boyd Cable 1910
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