Definitions for thistledown

thistledown this·tle·down

Spelling: [this-uh l-doun]
IPA: /ˈθɪs əlˌdaʊn/

Thistledown is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 996 anagrams from letters in thistledown (dehilnosttw).

Definitions for thistledown

noun

  1. the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.

Origin of thistledown

First recorded in 1555-65; thistle + down2

Examples for thistledown

She made a movement with her lips as if she was blowing a bit of thistledown from her.

Her talk and she are both as light and wandering as thistledown.

They sailed from her on the faint hot breeze lightly as thistledown.

He was a very cool player, as quick as mercury and as light as thistledown.

His plumy tail, with a fringe of white hairs, is as airy as thistledown.

The swallows dart to and fro, and clouds of gnats dance like thistledown in the air.

Once, twice it swished; the third time it alighted like thistledown on the surface.

But the thistledown was still as death, and the face of his old master.

Does he let weeds and thistledown have the run of his garden-plot?

"Follow me," she said again, and rose softly from the ground like thistledown.

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