transcription, транскрипция: [ bɪloʊ ]
( billows, billowing, billowed)
1.
When something made of cloth billows , it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
The curtains billowed in the breeze...
Her pink dress billowed out around her.
VERB : V , V out
2.
When smoke or cloud billows , it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.
Steam billowed out from under the bonnet.
...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke.
VERB : V prep / adv , V-ing
3.
A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air.
...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke.
= cloud
N-COUNT : usu N of n