"wafture" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1873, Lew Wallace, chapter 8, in The Fair God, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 253",
          "text": "lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles",
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          "ref": "1911, Jack London, “The Seed of McCoy”, in South Sea Tales, New York: Macmillan, page 267",
          "text": "Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting.",
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          "ref": "1936, John Cowper Powys, chapter 9, in Maiden Castle, Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, published 2001, page 416",
          "text": "It is doubtful, however, if she would have allowed quite so deep a wafture of lamentation to have passed her lips had she been alone.",
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          "ref": "2016, Robert Kelly, “XO”, in Opening the Seals, Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, page 154",
          "text": "and sniff at your waftures / to analyze your lust / and smell the pheromones of everyone you kissed,",
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        "(archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound."
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          "ref": "c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 1",
          "text": "[…] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you:",
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          "text": "1785, Henry Boyd (translator), Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dublin: P. Byrne, Canto 1, p. 198,\nThen those that sing amid the purging flame, / Inspir’d by ling’ring hope at last to claim / A tardy wafture to the happy shore."
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          "ref": "1821 October, Charles Lamb, “Witches and Other Night-Fears”, in The London Magazine, volume 4, number 22, page 387",
          "text": "[…] the gentle Thames […] landed me, in the wafture of a placid wave or two, alone, safe and inglorious, somewhere at the foot of Lambeth palace.",
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          "ref": "1922, Angela Morgan, “Afternoon Tea”, in Because of Beauty, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 105",
          "text": "The trees […] smile and nod and chatter, / Spreading their skirts most graciously, / Gesturing gayly with each wafture of the breeze.",
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        "(archaic) The act of wafting something."
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