Meaning

A type of light, crisp cracker, used primarily for some hors d'oeuvres..

Definitions by Sense

1. A type of light, crisp cracker, used primarily for some hors d'oeuvres.
2. A daughter of Aeolus; a tiny female spirit of the wind.

Example Sentences

Spread zephyrettes with quince jelly and sprinkle with chopped English walnut meat. Place a zephyrette over each and press together.

Mix with the whites of the eggs, and spread on zephyrette biscuits or on thin slices of bread.

In tin packages costing twenty-five cents each the company offers afternoon teas, butter thins, ginger wafers, graham wafers, unsweetened grahams, oatmeals, pilot wafers, square saltines and zephyrettes.

As the liquor flows from the oysters, dip it out with a spoon and keep them as dry as possible, until they are plump. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper and add two tablespoonfuls of butter. Lay each one on a zephyrette and pour the liquor over.

The storm, however, subsided ; and subsequently I discovered, upon music and the opera becoming the topics of conversation, that Mr. Nobody rivalled Paganini on the violin ; and believed that his lady danced better than the zephyrette, Taglioni; and that Herz, Hummel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, and Weber, were, in comparison, beaten hollow by one of his little sisters.

... and then the battles and struggles of these animals, the injuries inflicted on them by each other, and yet their continued existence: and, finally, this mingled, fluttering, hurting, killing, caressing, reproducing life becomes an infinite breath of life, wherein the individual life flies like a tiny zephyrette .

Aeolus appeared surrounded by a crowd of his children — the zephyrs and zephyrettes.

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