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"text": "1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,\nAh, but the skies are joyous in the spring,\nFrom dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;\nWhite-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do\nBut wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!"
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"text": "1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,\nOh, graciously she led my soul within\nWhere ever and forever went a wind\nIn zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet\nAbout the place, and waves of poppy heat\nAbout us there."
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"ref": "1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 388, column 2:",
"text": "O thou Goddeſſe, / Thou diuine Nature; thou^([sic – meaning how]) thy ſelfe thou blazon'ſt / In theſe two Princely Boyes: they are as gentle / As Zephires blowing below the Violet, / Not wagging his ſweet head; [...]",
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"ref": "1992, Joyce Toomre, “[Introduction] French Influence on Russian Cuisine”, in Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets’ A Gift to Young Housewives (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 21:",
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"text": "For desserts there were “airy pie,” charlottes, mousses, kissel, plombir and “zephyrs.”",
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"text": "2 tablespoons beet juice (optional—include it if you’re nostalgic for pink zephyr)",
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"ref": "2017, Karl F. Tiefenbacher, The Technology of Wafers and Waffles I: Operational Aspects, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 346:",
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"ref": "2019, Marvel Cook, “Black Currant Russian Zephyrs”, in Cooking Healthy and Loving It! 101 Happy and Healthy Recipes Including Gluten-Free, Diabetic and Vegan to Help You Feel Your Very Best!, Summit, N.J.: Cape Crystal Brands, →ISBN, page 31:",
"text": "When the zephyrs are firm to the touch, press the two zephyr halves together and roll in powdered sugar.",
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"en:Wind"
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"3": "zephyrus",
"4": "",
"5": "west wind"
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"etymology_text": "From Latin zephyrus (“west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros). Doublet of zefir, zéphire, Zephyr, and Zephyrus. The confectionery sense is a semantic loan from Russian зефи́р (zefír).",
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"ref": "1879, Robert Stephen Hawker, “An Inscription for an Aged Oak”, in The Poetical Works, London: The Bodley Head, page 171:",
"text": "There was a time\nWhen the soft zephyring spring came joyfully,\nLike a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—",
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{
"ref": "1908, Clarence E. Mulford, chapter 4, in The Coming of Hopalong Cassidy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 60:",
"text": "There was a sudden scrambling and thumping overhead and hot exclamations zephyred down to them.",
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"ref": "1922, Thomas Hardy, “An Experience”, in Late Lyrics and Earlier with Many Other Verses, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 2, page 111:",
"text": "But there was a new afflation— / An aura zephyring round, / That care infected not: [...]",
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"To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze."
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"(intransitive, poetic) To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze."
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{
"text": "1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361,\nHe was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city."
},
{
"text": "1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,\nAh, but the skies are joyous in the spring,\nFrom dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;\nWhite-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do\nBut wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!"
},
{
"text": "1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,\nOh, graciously she led my soul within\nWhere ever and forever went a wind\nIn zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet\nAbout the place, and waves of poppy heat\nAbout us there."
}
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"To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze."
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"(transitive, poetic) To blow or blow on gently like a zephyr; to cool or refresh with a gentle breeze."
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"word": "zephir"
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