Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of wafting or waving; a beckoning or gesture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that is
wafted . - noun The act of
wafting something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of signaling by a movement of the hand
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty.
Chapter 11 2010
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They brought into the hot hard streets the witchery of the woodlands; and no one could inhale for a moment, in passing by, the sweet wafture of their fragrance without being transported in imagination to far-off scenes endeared to memory, and without a thrill of nameless tenderness at the heart.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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William Shakespeare. (15641616) (continued) 1294With an angry wafture of your hand,
Quotations 1919
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The air was filled with the songs of birds and was heavy with rich warm fragrances -- wafture from great lilies, and blazing blossoms of hibiscus, and other strange gorgeous tropic flowers.
Chapter 5 1913
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The air was filled with the songs of birds and was heavy with rich warm fragrances -- wafture from great lilies, and blazing blossoms of hibiscus, and other strange gorgeous tropic flowers.
Chapter 5 1911
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It seemed a glow to him, a warm and trailing vapor, ever beyond his reaching, though sometimes he was rewarded by catching at shreds of it and weaving them into phrases that echoed in his brain with haunting notes or drifted across his vision in misty wafture of unseen beauty.
Chapter 11 1908
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"He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand.
An Anarchist Woman Hutchins Hapgood 1906
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I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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At the close of the third wafture, a roar as of thunder broke and rolled about the place, making the huge hall tremble, and the windows rattle and shake fearfully.
St. George and St. Michael Volume II George MacDonald 1864
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At the close of the third wafture, a roar as of thunder broke and rolled about the place, making the huge hall tremble, and the windows rattle and shake fearfully.
St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864
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