vapory

American  

[vey-puh-ree] / ˈveɪ pə ri /

adjective

1. vaporous.

2. vaporish.

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Etymology

Origin of vapory

First recorded in 1590–1600; vapor + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Officers responded to Beyond the Cloud Vapory, located at 17th Avenue Northeast and Lake City Way Northeast, just before 6 p.m., said Seattle police spokesperson Valerie Carson.

From Seattle Times

“You start looking at a cloud and you start seeing patterns. You need a lot of vapory detail and big, dramatic flourishes.”

From Los Angeles Times

Hair dark as a starless night flowed from beneath this helmet, and streamed in long tresses over the fair shoulders whereof the commencement only, alas! was left exposed by a collarette, or gorget, adorned with many rows of serpentine stones, azodrachs, and chrysoberyls; a linen robe diagonally cut—a mist of material, of woven air, ventus textilis as Petronius says, undulated in vapory whiteness about a lovely body whose outlines it scarcely shaded with the softest shading.

From Project Gutenberg

These were painted in the last of the three manners of Murillo, the method usually adopted in his Madonnas,—the "vapory" style, "with soft and tender outlines, velvety coloring, and shadows which are only softened lights."

From Project Gutenberg

But, oh, how just did I now find the words of a virtuous friend, and how childish my folly, when the true sharp edge of present fear dispersed these vapory clouds, even as the keen blast of a north wind doth drive away a noxious mist!

From Project Gutenberg