Meanings
plural ventiges
- obsoleteA vent, or passage for air.
This stem is without joint, but for the sake of ornament, it is cut so as to appear as if it had as many joints as it has ventiges.
1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, volume 8, page 51
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