vapour
noun
vapourish
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a word derived from
vapour.
Example Sentences
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The rain had ceased, the heavy clouds were blown away, and the air was thin and clear, although vapourish mists were being driven swiftly across the moon.
From The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Indeed, there was nothing but a vapourish shroud, a dim, grey chaos, as far as his eye could reach.
From A Singer from the Sea by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
She found, said he, that I was unable to determine about entering upon it; and now who knows when such a vapourish creature will come to a resolution?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson
I am in the depth of vapourish despondency.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson
Though no longer young, she was still slender and graceful, and her languid eye and vapourish manner seemed to Odo to veil an uncommon alertness of perception.
From The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
