wispish

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1. Wispy.

   His pinched face, with its wispish silver growths, bent pince-nez, cap crushed slightly on one side, and air of portentous, almost lunatic solemnity, lent itself to more than portraiture.

   1928, Robert Byron, “Gardenias and Sweetpeas”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 184

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   The clouds, still faintly tinged with the sunrise glow, rolled like masses of tinted feathers over the low hill-tops, and rising from the ground there was the misty, wispish breath which the young day seemed to exhale from its soft bosom.

   1888, Anna Bowman Dodd, chapter 4, in Glorinda, Boston: Roberts Bros, page 55

   Same blue serge dress she had two years ago, the nap bleaching. Seen its best days. Wispish hair over her ears. And that dowdy toque: three old grapes to take the harm out of it. Shabby genteel. She used to be a tasty dresser.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC