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vapory

[ vey-puh-ree ]

adjective



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Word History and Origins

Origin of vapory1

First recorded in 1590–1600; vapor + -y 1

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Example Sentences

His presence is surmised only when he has disappeared, generally leaving behind him a vapory cloud.

Their breath was blown in two vapory columns from their nostrils and drifted about their heads like steam about a locomotive.

She wore her glistening black hair in bands, and dressed in vapory white muslin.

The pure alpine air of the Puna is preferred by the Indians to the vapory atmosphere of the Ceja.

This also was the shriek of the swift-flying, white, and gigantic birds which issued from the vapory white curtain of the South.

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