fishnetty
fishnetty adjective: made of fishnet.
Adjective
fishnetty (comparative more fishnetty, superlative most fishnetty)
- Made of fishnet.
- Fishnetty fabrics are being hauled in by the yard by out-for-a-catch designers.1964 October 16, Anne Batt Calling, “All Strung Up”, in Liverpool Echo and Evening Express, number 26,391, Liverpool, Merseyside, page 18
- Stemming the culottes, sand-colored fishnetty tights by Hudson Hosiery.1967 March, “Khaki & What Wows It”, in Betsy Talbot Blackwell, editor, Mademoiselle, New York, N.Y.: The Condé Nast Publications Inc., →ISSN, page 136
- Resembling or characteristic of fishnet.
- […] Mrs. Vreeland was wearing […] a cool black sheath of some cobwebby kind of material, sleeveless, and skimming over her body like a second skin. And the black of her hair was pulled into a black snood, fishnetty and smart as could be.1985, Gloria Vanderbilt, “Mrs. Vreeland and Camels and Rubies”, in Once Upon a Time: A True Story, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, pages 244–245
- This week in far-flung Northern Hemispheric ports the state of some gels’ sartorial gorgeousness is being measured by the exotic nature (or not) of their lacy, meshy, sort of fishnetty tights.1995 December 6, Janice Breen Burns, “Babble On”, in The Age, 142nd year, number 43,843, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, page 16, column 4
Examples of fishnetty in a sentence
- “I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top.1994 January 2, James Quig, “Boys’ night out”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page F 2, column 2:
- While everyone else is sartorially correct in leotards and leggings, she is busting out of something fishnetty that looks as if it came from the Pleasure Chest.1995 January 3, Liz Brody, “Sweaty Encounters of an Aerobic Kind”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: The Times Mirror Company...
- In leather queen gear on the front and rampant, fishnetty drag on the back.1999 August 14, Stephanie Bunbury, “A watcher in the shadows”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., →ISSN, Saturday Extra section, page 5, column 2:
- I thought Frizz would be too shy, but she immediately pulled off the jeans and put on the suspender belt, and a pair of stockings that went with it – black and fishnetty.2002, Jean Ure, chapter 3, in Girls Are Groovy! (Girlfriends; 3), London: Orchard Books, Hachette Children’s Books, published 2008, →ISBN...
Forms of fishnetty
| comparative | more fishnetty |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fishnetty |
Origin of fishnetty
From fishnet + -y.
Questions about fishnetty
- What does fishnetty mean?
- Fishnetty means made of fishnet.
- How do you use fishnetty in a sentence?
- “I come for the music and the exercise,” said one woman who was wearing high boots and a terrific fishnetty kind of top.
- What part of speech is fishnetty?
- Fishnetty is an adjective.
Words near fishnetty in the dictionary
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