a. [f. FLOSS sb.2 + -Y1.] Resembling floss or floss-silk; floss-like.
1839. Bailey, Festus, xx. (1848), 266.
| Autumn, when some young thing with tiny hands, | |
| And rosy cheeks, and flossy tendrilled locks, | |
| Is wantoning about us day and night. |
1874. T. Hardy, Madding Crowd, I. xxviii. 306. The middle within the belt of verdure was floored with a thick flossy carpet of moss and grass intermingled, so yielding that the foot was half buried within it.
1884. Daily News, 10 Nov., 3/1. Chenille embroideries brightened by … the flossiest of silks.
