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blottery en · ADJ

Etymology

From blotter + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling blotting paper.
   • Beka squeezed her way between shoppers, sacks of flour and rice, barrels and drums, until she reached a counter at the rear of the shop where Mr Gordillo stood slapping lard onto a piece of blottery paper on a creaky scale descending from a chain attached to the ceiling. 1982, Zee Edgell, chapter 7, in Beka Lamb, London: Heinemann, page 38:
   • Mark, a cheeping chorister of our schooldays, has retained, despite the blottery tenor that has displaced his treble, a habit of uttering with the suddenness of a ship’s siren, the less interesting of [Franz] Schubert's ditties. 1928, Robert Byron, “Visiting”, in The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC, page 86:
   • […] she got up and groped her way to one of the windows, pulling up the blind. Blackness. Dense, blottery blackness except for the random, stabbing beams of headlights far down in the street below […] 1974, Sue Kaufman, “Lights Out”, in Falling Bodies, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 244:
   • When I realized that that wretched little tin can was all that stood between me and the world, his wife and his family, there was an acute palpitation around the heart, and a dry blottery feeling in the mouth. 1922 November, Leon Alfred Duthernoy, “Singing to Tens of Thousands: Impressions of an Artist During His First Radio Concert”, in Radio Broadcast, volume 2, number 1, page 49:
   • The announcements were pale green and on paper of a blottery texture which harbored no errors in folding. 1950, Betty Macdonald, chapter 14, in Anybody Can Do Anything, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, page 185:

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