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Noun- The quality or state of being a soft wool material.

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  • "We shan't be able to observe anything but this fleeciness until we get to Mars."
  • Only the white fleeciness of morning mist had flitted sometimes over her summer-sky, deepening the blue.
  • On the floors of the rooms were jaguar skins, with wonderful spots, and thick monkey furs of exquisite fleeciness.
  • For sixty-five feet this miracle of snowy marble rises in the air, growing more lacey at every step until, in its terminal portions, so delicate does it become that it seems...
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