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flamy

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[fley-mee] / ˈfleɪ mi /

adjective

flamier, flamiest
  1. of or like flame.


Etymology

Origin of flamy

First recorded in 1485–95; flame + -y 1

Example Sentences

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Fired by his voice, and foremost at his call, To mount the breach or scale the flamy wall, Thy daring hand had many a laurel gain'd, If years had ripen'd what thy fancy feign'd.

From The Columbiad by Barlow, Joel

Who, good sooth, beside Have seen it well, have walked this empty world When she went steaming, and from pulpy hills Have marked the spurting of their flamy crowns?

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean

In yonder cloud behold, Whose sarsenet skirts are edged with flamy gold, A matchless youth! his nod these worlds controls, Wings the red lightning, and the thunder rolls.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

It was pitch dark—But suddenly I saw a big fire of oak-root, a brilliant, flamy, rich fire, and my rage in that second disappeared.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The sunlight blazed down upon the earth, there was a vividness of flamy vegetation, of fierce seclusion amid the savage peace of the commons.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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