zephyr
noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Danh từ
noun- 1.
A light wind from the west.
Đồng nghĩa: westerly
- 2.
Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.
- 3.
Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.
- 4.
A type of soft confectionery made by whipping fruit and berry purée (mostly apple purée) with sugar and egg whites with subsequent addition of a gelling agent like pectin, carrageenan, agar, or gelatine.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive, poetic)To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.
- 2.
(poetic, transitive)To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze.
1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361, He was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city.
1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76, Ah, but the skies are joyous in the spring, From dawn to dusk exuberantly blue; White-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do But wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!
1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49, Oh, graciously she led my soul within Where ever and forever went a wind In zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet About the place, and waves of poppy heat About us there.
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From la zephyrus west wind, from grc Ζέφυρος. zefir zéphire Zephyr Zephyrus. The confectionery sense is a Russian зефи́р.