breezeful

comparative more breezeful · superlative most breezeful

1. uncommonHaving breezes.First known use 19th c.

   Oft' in the mournful shade I sit Amidst the breezeful wind : And, by its sighs, their mem'ry lorn Comes rushing on my mind.

   1817, John Shackleton, “Carric-thura”, in James Macpherson, transl., The Poems of Ossian, volume 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, page 226

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   […] and there is a confusion of embroidery and white linen and silk hose that fills the eye of the man in the parquette with a flash of joy and causes a warm still wind to roll in a breezeful way around his cardiacal region.

   1882, John J. Jennings, “Fishing for Free Puffs” (chapter XXI), in Theatrical and Circus Life; or, Secrets of the Stage, Green-room and Sawdust Arena, St. Louis: Sun Publishing Company, page 309

   From exercising in the open air all that delightful, breezeful morning, their appetites became immensely whetted for a full enjoyment of the rich repast.

   1906, Mattie Sampson Smith, “At the Picnic”, in Miss Claire's pupils, The National Baptist Publishing House, page 78

plural breezefuls

1. uncommonAn amount carried in a breeze.First known use 20th c.

   She coughed as a breezeful of dust came in from the window.

   2003, Mongo, “The Demon Drive” (chapter 13), in America's Keenest City, […], page 270

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   Quickly she looked left and right, then left again, like doing her kerb drill. There was no one, only a breezeful of leaves and an empty Embassy cigarette packet in the gutter.

   1968, David Pinner, chapter 9, in With My Body, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 70

   For if a cupful of mint tea or a spoonful of mint jelly is a tonic for frayed nerves, how much more powerful its curative properties would be if mixed with a skyful of sunshine and floating clouds and a breezeful of woodsy scents.

   1970 May 29 [1954], Annora Brown, “Old Man's Medicine Bag” (chapter V), in Old Man's Garden, Gray's Publishing, Mint, page 97

   One tree could let loose a whole breezeful of millions, even billions, of spores.

   1970, Margaret Cosgrove, “Journey to the Two-sex Way” (chapter 4), in Seeds, Embryos, and Sex, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., page 25

   Over the border of the dawn Far as the blue Atlantic sky, The white birds of the sea go on In breezefuls, wailing as they fly.

   1972, chapter VI, in Alice Curtayne, editor, Francis Ledwidge: A life of the poet (1887-191), London: Martin Brian and O'Keeffe, page 115

   He squeezes onto the metal bleacher beside me and I catch a breezeful of his cinnamony smell.

   2014 September 29, Donna Cooner, Can't Look Away, Point, page 263