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adj. - Like a covering of soft fluffy feathers or as soft as a covering of fluffy feathers.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Adjective : a down jacket
  • If only to stop some of the absurd lower court decisions that have been coming downlike:
  • These white, fluffy, downlike feathers grow on the lower underpart of the body of the Maribou Stork.
  • I laid her down on her bed, put the sheet over her feet, sat down beside her, and brushed her soft, downlike hair with my hand.
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