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Billowing   /bˈɪloʊɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Billow  v. i.  (past & past part. billowed; pres. part. billowing)  To surge; to rise and roll in waves or surges; to undulate. "The billowing snow."


adjective
billowing  adj.  
1.
Rising in billows. "Billowing smoke"
2.
Stormy; affected by storms; of weather, used prenominally.. Antonym: calm.
Synonyms: billowy, surging.





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"Billowing" Quotes from Famous Books



... construction of ocean vessels, and the repairs to the seaboard. This was the only time in which preparations were made for the reception of the Emperor, and money was lavished in quantities as great as the billowing ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin
... Bishop stopped for a moment beside us, his surplice billowing about him like the sails about a tall mast when the wind dies. "At seven," he said, "tomorrow morning at my ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... the household rose; the boat nodded to the leeward of the rock, with its mast stepped, its sail billowing with a rustle in the faint air, and Mungo at the sheet. The dawn came slowly, but fast enough for the departing, and the landward portion of the rock was still in shadow when Olivia stepped forth with a tear-stained ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... window, to be between the German and the light, and let him see her silhouetted in an attitude of hope awakening. She gazed at the billowing smoke as if the hope of ...
— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy
... fountains of earth rise, leaping, Spouting like shocks of meeting waves, Death's fountains are playing, Shells like shrieking birds rush over; Crash and din rises higher. A stream of lead raves Over us from the left ... (we safe under cover!) Crash! Reverberation! Crash! Acrid smoke billowing. Flash upon flash. Black smoke drifting. The German line Vanishes in confusion, smoke. Cries, and cry Of our men, 'Gah, yer swine! Ye're for it', die In a ...
— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 • Various


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