Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling the willow; like the color of the willow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
willow ;willowy .
Etymologies
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willow + -ish
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Examples
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It is intended to bring before the reader's mind the utterly _willowish_ character of
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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First for a Mayfly: you may make his body with greenish-coloured crewel, or willowish colour; darkening it in most places with waxed silk; or ribbed with black hair; or, some of them, ribbed with silver thread; and such wings, for the colour, as you see the fly to have at that season, nay, at that very day on the water.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation 1653
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