"zephyrous" meaning in English

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          "text": "1800, Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle, The Stepmother, London: R.H. Evans, Act V, Scene 1, p. 75,\nThe last night’s tempest was a zephyrous gale,\nTo the rough storm that tears his frame to atoms:"
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          "text": "And the blossom as scarlet as blood, the single, the starry, the strong,\nIs the Alpine love that is nurtured in clefts of the toiler’s life,—\nThe love that is sought not in languor nor chanted in zephyrous song,\nBut held in the heart of the storm when the soul has been wed to a wife.",
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          "text": "Green-hatted doormen awaken the eve\nin statuary-niched yellow lobbies—\nzephyrous canyons brightlit, gray stone Empire State\ntoo small to be God\nlords it over sweet Macy’s & Seafood City\nby junkie Grant Hotel",
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