zephyr

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a slight wind, usually refreshing

   What a nice zephyr we have today.

2. 2
   noun

   Anything of fine, soft, or light quality, especially fabric.

   The world hummed and spun about him. There was a whirling of zephyr skirts, four impassioned faces sweeping towards the open door of the passage that ran through the vicarage. He felt his position went with them.

3. 3
   verb

   To blow or move like a zephyr, or light breeze.

   There was a time When the soft zephyring spring came joyfully, Like a young bride, with bloom upon her cheek—.

From Latin zephyrus (“west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφυρος (Zéphuros). Doublet of zefir, zéphire, Zephyr, and Zephyrus. The confectionery sense is a semantic loan from Russian зефи́р (zefír).

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