noun
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the act of wafting or waving
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anything that is wafted
Etymology
Origin of wafture
Example Sentences
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"He passed him up," on the spot, with a scornful wafture of his hand.
From An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood
A big sigh escaped Charles-Norton, with a blue wafture of smoke.
From The Trimming of Goosie by James Hopper
For a moment Brunhild remained thoughtful, and then ordering the other pages out of the chamber with a wafture of her hand she addressed the one who had first come in.
From The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter by Eugène Sue
At a second wafture, the nephew and the freedman both departed, glad to be spared the witnessing a scene so awful as that which was about to ensue.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
I had only a glimpse of him, but several times felt the cool wafture of his silent wings.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
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