See Also: wafture(dictionary)

wafture (iou)



wafture noun. Now arch. & literary. E17.
[from WAFT verb1, verb2 + -URE.]
The action or an act of waving the hand or something held in the hand. E17.
G. Macdonald A few mysterious waftures of the hand.
b. The waving of a wing or wings. L18.
The action of wafting or propelling by air or current. M18.
A thing wafted or carried by or on the breeze. E19.
K. Tennant The smell of manure.., the human waftures of sweat.