breathsome
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]breathsome (comparative more breathsome, superlative most breathsome)
- Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy
- 1868, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society - Volume 11; Volume 13:
- I feel it now, the breathsome gale / That swayed and kissed the almond flowers / Which flushed that sunny nook of ground, / By cedars flanked, with mountains round.
- 1869, Eleanora Louisa Hervey, Our Legends and Lives:
- To feel sweet gales around thee blow, / Yet know that there be some who ne'er / Shall feel again that breathsome air, / Joyful or sad; [...]