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English
Etymology
From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.
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Adverb
thickly (comparative thicklier or more thickly, superlative thickliest or most thickly)
- In a thick manner.
1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented , volume I, London: James R Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 148:These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.
1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.
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