breathsful

Noun

breathful (plural breathfuls or breathsful)

1. That which is smelled or sensed in one breath.
   • Once you've swirled, close your eyes and take a good breathful of the wine.1999, Dennis Overstreet, Overstreet's New Wine Guide: Celebrating the New Wave in Winemaking
2. A quantity that is inhaled in one breath.
   • Approximately I/5 of the oxygen in each breathful of air is absorbed by the body.1943, The Bluejackets' Manual - Volume 11, Part 1943, page 1096
3. The amount spoken on one breath.
   • Estelle lay in bed, groggily complaining against the gas light, and Miriam teased her, and Estelle told her to quit or get the devil out of here, but Miriam wouldn't quit, and Estelle thrashed around and pushed her and soon they had a little fight and then they both lay and told about their men...1938, Sidney Meller, Roots in the Sky, page 144
4. A quantity that is exhaled in one breath.
   • A fifteen-month gap separates the recording of the "The First Part" from "The Third Part," but the music could just as easily be two bubbles blown from the same fish on the same breathful of water.2003, Coda - Issues 307-318, page 28

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