coolth
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cool + -th. Compare Old Dutch kuolitha (“coolness”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]coolth (usually uncountable, plural coolths)
- The state of being cool, temperature-wise; coolness.
- 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Froid”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Rr, verso, column 2:
- Froid: m. Cold, cooth[sic]; coldneſſe, chilneſſe.
- 1842, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay:
- In the evening my father and Mrs Thrale seated themselves out of doors, just before the Blue-room windows, for coolth and chat; […]
- 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim (Macmillan’s Colonial Library; no. 414), London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
- Through the speckled shadow of the great deodar-forests […] and back into the woodlands’ coolth again […]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 628:
- The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.
- 2012, David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change:
- This they do, not only convectively by passing cooler air over the skins of building occupants, but also using radiant coolth.
- 2017, Stephanie Huesler, The Price of Freedom, Indie 2017 (Northing Trilogy), p. 253:
- Her voice was an odd mixture of cordiality and coolth.