All 8 Uses
loam
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Look Homeward, Angel
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- He thought of the loamy black earth with its sudden young light of flowers, of the beaded chill of beer, and of the plumtree's dropping blossoms.†
Chpt 1 *loamy = rich
- He built his house close to the quiet hilly street; he bedded the loamy soil with flowers; he laid the short walk to the high veranda steps with great square sheets of colored marble; he put a fence of spiked iron between his house and the world.†
Chpt 1
- All that he touched waxed in rich pungent life: his Spring gardens, wrought in the black wet earth below the fruit trees, flourished in huge crinkled lettuces that wrenched cleanly from the loamy soil with small black clots stuck to their crisp stocks; fat red radishes; heavy tomatoes.†
Chpt 1
- He remembered yet the East India Tea House at the Fair, the sandalwood, the turbans, and the robes, the cool interior and the smell of India tea; and he had felt now the nostalgic thrill of dew-wet mornings in Spring, the cherry scent, the cool clarion earth, the wet loaminess of the garden, the pungent breakfast smells and the floating snow of blossoms.†
Chpt 1loaminess = of soil: the quality of richness
- They will fall bursted on the loamy warm wet earth; when the wind blows in the orchard the air will be filled with dropping plums; the night will be filled with the sound of their dropping, and a great tree of birds will sing, burgeoning, blossoming richly, filling the air also with warm-throated plum-dropping bird-notes.†
Chpt 2loamy = rich
- He was surrounded by wide slanting shelves of fruit and vegetables, smelling of the earth and morning—great crinkled lettuces, fat radishes still clotted damply with black loam, quill-stemmed young onions newly wrenched from gardens, late celery, spring potatoes, and the thin rinded citrous fruits of Florida.†
Chpt 2loam = rich soil
- A negro dug tenderly in the round loamy flowerbeds of the Presbyterian churchyard, bending now and then to thrust his thick fingers gently in about the roots.†
Chpt 2loamy = rich
- A warm sunny odor of nasturtiums, loamy earth, and honeysuckle washed round them its hot spermy waves.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(loam) a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, loam can refer to a mix of soil and straw used to make bricks or plaster walls. In that form, it can also be used as a verb--for example, "She loamed the wall."