What does wafture mean?
Wafture means (archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound..
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/ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/ · noun
(archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound..
lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles
Stray waftures of invisible gases bit his eyes and made them sting.
It is doubtful, however, if she would have allowed quite so deep a wafture of lamentation to have passed her lips had she been alone.
and sniff at your waftures / to analyze your lust / and smell the pheromones of everyone you kissed,
1785, Henry Boyd (translator), Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dublin: P. Byrne, Canto 1, p. 198, Then those that sing amid the purging flame, / Inspir’d by ling’ring hope at last to claim / A tardy wafture to the happy shore.
[…] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you:
[…] the gentle Thames […] landed me, in the wafture of a placid wave or two, alone, safe and inglorious, somewhere at the foot of Lambeth palace.
The trees […] smile and nod and chatter, / Spreading their skirts most graciously, / Gesturing gayly with each wafture of the breeze.
Use wafture when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wafture means (archaic) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound..
Common synonyms include gust, puff, wave, waving.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles
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