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: full of bloom
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: covered with bloom
bloomy plums
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: showing freshness or vitality
all the bloomy flush of life is fled—
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: having or being a thin, whitish rind formed on cheese by exposure to mold
… a sophisticated bohemian crowd sipping Baltic whites with their bloomy cheeses.—Lesley Bargar Suter
Lesley Bargar SuterSoft cheeses usually have a soft interior and a bloomy rind—a rind that is pliable and edible.—Peggy Cullen
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“Bloomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloomy. Accessed 8 Oct. 2024.
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