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What (who) is Billow - definition
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Billow (disambiguation)
billow
(billows, billowing, billowed)
1.
When something made of cloth billows, it swells out and moves slowly in the wind.
The curtains billowed in the breeze...
Her pink dress billowed out around her.
VERB: V, V out
2.
When smoke or cloud billows, it moves slowly upwards or across the sky.
Steam billowed out from under the bonnet.
...billowing clouds of cigarette smoke.
VERB: V prep/adv, V-ing
3.
A billow of smoke or dust is a large mass of it rising slowly into the air.
...smoke stacks belching billows of almost solid black smoke.
= cloud
N-COUNT: usu N of n
billow
¦ noun
1. a large undulating mass of cloud, smoke, or steam.
2. archaic a large sea wave.
¦ verb (of fabric) fill with air and swell outwards.
?(of smoke, cloud, or steam) move or flow outward with an undulating motion.
Derivatives
billowy adjective
Origin
C16: from ON bylgja.
Wikipedia
Billow
Billow or billows may refer to:
- Wave
- Wind wave
- Billow maidens, Norse mythological wave maidens
- Andrew Billow (1924–2003), American politician
- Richard Billows, American academic
Examples of use of Billow
1. She left her hair loose to billow flatteringly in the morning breeze.
2. The buildings crumble, flames shoot up, clouds of dust billow into the air.
3. Asked whether the hard–hit Ninth Ward would ever come back, Pete exhaled forcefully enough to billow his cheeks.
4. An acrid pall of smoke from Iraq will billow across that conference hall.
5. There were no buttons or hardware to secure the front, allowing it to billow dramatically in a breeze.