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paysage (iou) and puffy (iou)


paysage (iou)



paysage noun. Pl. pronounced same. E17.
[French, from pays country: see -AGE.]
(A representation of) a rural scene or landscape.
? Formerly naturalized.

paysagist noun a landscape-painter E19.

puffy (iou)



puffy adjective. L16.
[from PUFF noun, verb + -Y1.]
Vain, pompous, inflated. Now rare. L16.
Dryden He distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity.
(Of wind) gusty; (of a person or animal) easily caused to puff and pant, short-winded. E17.
Times A strong puffy off-shore wind.
Swollen or inclined to swell; puffed out; fat; flabby. M17.
B. Breytenbach He has red puffy bags under the eyes.
puffily adverb M19.
puffiness noun puffed-up or swollen condition; an instance of this: M17.