wafture
UK/ˈwɒf.t͡ʃə/US/ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/
wafture noun: something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.
Noun
wafture (countable and uncountable, plural waftures)
- Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.
- lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles1873, Lew Wallace, chapter 8, in The Fair God, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 253
- Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting.1911, Jack London, “The Seed of McCoy”, in South Sea Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 267
- The act of wafting something.
- […] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you:c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1
- Then those that sing amid the purging flame, / Inspir’d by ling’ring hope at last to claim / A tardy wafture to the happy shore.1785, Henry Boyd (translator), Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dublin: P. Byrne, Canto 1, p. 198
wafture meaning in Urdu
wafture in Urdu
- wafture
- احتراز ehtirāz
Examples of wafture in a sentence
- It is doubtful, however, if she would have allowed quite so deep a wafture of lamentation to have passed her lips had she been alone.1936, John Cowper Powys, chapter 9, in Maiden Castle, Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, published 2001, page 416:
- and sniff at your waftures / to analyze your lust / and smell the pheromones of everyone you kissed,2016, Robert Kelly, “XO”, in Opening the Seals, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, page 154:
- […] the gentle Thames […] landed me, in the wafture of a placid wave or two, alone, safe and inglorious, somewhere at the foot of Lambeth palace.1821 October, Charles Lamb, “Witches and Other Night-Fears”, in The London Magazine, volume 4, number 22, page 387:
- The trees […] smile and nod and chatter, / Spreading their skirts most graciously, / Gesturing gayly with each wafture of the breeze.1922, Angela Morgan, “Afternoon Tea”, in Because of Beauty, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 105:
Synonyms of wafture
Forms of wafture
| plural | waftures |
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Origin of wafture
From waft + -ure.
Questions about wafture
- What does wafture mean?
- Wafture means something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.
- What is wafture in Urdu?
- Wafture in Urdu is احتراز (ehtirāz). See Wafture meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use wafture in a sentence?
- It is doubtful, however, if she would have allowed quite so deep a wafture of lamentation to have passed her lips had she been alone.
- What part of speech is wafture?
- Wafture is a noun.
- How do you pronounce wafture?
- Wafture is pronounced /ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of wafture?
- The plural of wafture is waftures.
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