a. In 4 flotery. [f. FLUTTER v. + -Y.] Apt to flutter, fluttering. Also fig.

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1386.  Chaucer, Knt.’s T., 2025.

        With flotery berd, and ruggy asshy heres,
In clothes blake, y-dropped al with teres.

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1823.  New Monthly Mag., VII. 569. He [Cuyp] has all the sweetness of Wouvermans, without his finical and affected niceness; all the brightness of Wynants, without his patchy, fluttery, and undecided mode of handling; and all the elegance and neatness of Berchem, without that insipid and mawkish manner which dilutes even the best results of his efforts.

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1855.  J. Hewitt, Anc. Armour, I. 341. The housing is of a light, fluttery material, probably covering an armour of chain-mail.

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1875.  Browning, Aristoph. Apol., 337.

        No more than if the fluttery tree-top turned
To actual music, sang itself aloft;
Or if the wind, impassioned chantress, earned.

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