breathsome

English

Etymology

From breath +‎ -some.

Adjective

breathsome (comparative more breathsome, superlative most breathsome)

  1. Characteristic of breath or breathing; breathy
    • 1868, James Hogg, Florence Marryat, London Society - Volume 11; Volume 13:
      I feel it now, the breathsome gale / That swayed and kissed the almond flowers / Which flushed that sunny nook of ground, / By cedars flanked, with mountains round.
    • 1869, Eleanora Louisa Hervey, Our Legends and Lives:
      To feel sweet gales around thee blow, / Yet know that there be some who ne'er / Shall feel again that breathsome air, / Joyful or sad; [...]
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