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adjectivewillowish (comparative more willowish, superlative most willowish)
comparative more willowish · superlative most willowish
- Resembling a willow; willowy.
First for a May-fly : you may make his body with greenish colored crewel or willowish color
1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN
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