adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a baby's downy hair
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And on the branch beside it is a downy chick.
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Consider instead the delicate beading of perspiration on a downy lip.
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In the mixed hardwood forest, I come across a number of hairy and downy woodpeckers.
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On his head was a fuzz - a fluff of pale downy hair, almost transparent.
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On the right, nearest his father, Hubert, best-suited school-leaver with a downy boy's face and sharp cheek-bones.
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Outside, a light snow had begun to fall, whitening the streets with downy flakes.
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The undersides of the leaves are slightly downy .
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These leaves, too, were curled around the edges, and their undersides were covered with a downy tan fuzz.