fleecy

comparative fleecier · superlative fleeciest

1. Resembling or covered in fleece.

   Here the galley paused not at all, but floated easily in the blue of the sky among fleecy clouds tinted with rose.

   1920, H. P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs

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   Her path was on the briny deep; Yet no white sail propell'd her course, Nor measured oar with graceful sweep Urged her to stem the billow's force; Self-moved, with fleecy track she past, Disdaining in her pride To woo the breeze or shun the blast, Or wait the rolling tide;...

   1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, On the loss of the Steam Boat Ætna, page 96

   {...} turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.

   1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights

   So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC