OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17015

zephyr

/ˈzɛfə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
céfiro
Any light refreshing wind; a gentle breeze.
It [a house] stood on a sharp bleak corner, where that tempestuous wind Euroclydon kept up a worse howling than ever it did about poor Paul's tossed craft. Euroclydon, nevertheless…
The dusk of evening came on, soft in its solemnity, and unoppressive even in its gloom, under the sweet sky and unmolested zephyr, casting its pleasant shadows along the edges of t…
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