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/ˈreɪnᵻli/, U.S. /ˈreɪnᵻli/ Chiefly poetic and literary.
With rain falling; as if wet with or affected by rain.
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1835 New Monthly Mag. Apr. 495 The day now went very rainily and pleasantly on.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 173 Palinurus..observes..the Hyads rainily bright.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 516 Two sluts of the Coombe dance rainily by, shawled, yelling flatly.
1977 E. Morgan New Divan 108 And smells as faintly rainily fresh As on the first day.
2004 Times (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Mag.) 107 Friday May 26, 1732, slid rainily into Saturday May 27.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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