sleety
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[edit ]sleety (comparative sleetier , superlative sleetiest )
- Covered in sleet; full of sleet.
- sleety weather
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 17, in Emma: [...] , volume II, London: [...] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:
- Such a man, to quit the tranquillity and independence of his own fireside, and on the evening of a cold sleety April day rush out again into the world!
- 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-yard. [...] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley, Brothers, [...], →OCLC:
- The little doctor threw off his sleety cloak and hat in the lobby, and stood before the officer fresh and puffing, and a little flustered and dazzled after his romp with the wind.
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