waftureとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈwɒf.t͡ʃə/

名詞

wafture (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 waftures)

1. (archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.
   • 1873, Lew Wallace, The Fair God, Boston: James R. Osgood, Chapter 8, p. 253,^[1]

     lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles

   • 1911, Jack London, “The Seed of McCoy” in South Sea Tales, New York: Macmillan, p. 267,^[2]

     Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting.

   • 1936, John Cowper Powys, Maiden Castle, Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2001, Chapter 9, p. 416,^[3]

     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.

   • 2016, Robert Kelly, “XO” in Opening the Seals, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, p. 154,^[4]

     and sniff at your waftures / to analyze your lust / and smell the pheromones of everyone you kissed,

2. (archaic) The act of wafting something.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1,^[5]

     […] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you:

   • 1785, Henry Boyd (translator), Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dublin: P. Byrne, Canto 1, p. 198,^[6]

     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.

   • 1821, Charles Lamb, “Witches and Other Night-Fears” in The London Magazine, Volume 4, No. 22, October 1821, p. 387,^[7]

     […] 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.

   • 1922, Angela Morgan, “Afternoon Tea” in Because of Beauty, New York: Dodd, Mead, p. 105,^[8]

     The trees […] smile and nod and chatter, / Spreading their skirts most graciously, / Gesturing gayly with each wafture of the breeze.

同意語

• gust
• puff
• wave