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breathsome

adj

Etymology

From breath + -some.

  1. inherited from *brāþi✻
  2. inherited from brǣþ
  3. inherited from breeth
  4. suffixed as breathsome — “breath + some”

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of breath or breathing

    Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy

    • I feel it now, the breathsome gale / That swayed and kissed the almond flowers / Which flushed that sunny nook of ground, / By cedars flanked, with mountains round.
    • To feel sweet gales around thee blow, / Yet know that there be some who ne'er / Shall feel again that breathsome air, / Joyful or sad; [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA