spume
verb (used with object)
to eject or discharge as or like foam or froth; spew (often followed byforth ).
spumy
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a word derived from
spume.
Example Sentences
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The savior of the world appears in this painting as a soft, spumy cipher.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
The British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea.
From Time Magazine Archive
Soon as her beak had burst through wind-rackt spaces of ocean, While th'oar-tortured wave with spumy whiteness was blanching, Surged from the deep abyss and hoar-capped billows the faces 15Seaborn, Nereids eyeing the prodigy wonder-smitten.
From The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus by Sir Richard Francis Burton
But when the Idea, which a Poet strives to raise, is in itself magnificent and striking, the Dawb of Metaphor, or any spumy Colourings of Rhetoric can but deaden, and efface it.
From 'Of Genius', in The Occasional Paper, and Preface to The Creation by Gretchen Graf Pahl
Now from the lowest depths, As yellow sands they turn, the billows shine; Now blacker seem they than the Stygian waves; Now flatten'd, all with spumy froth is spread.
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
