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Synonyms for breezeless

Grammar : Adj
Spell : breez
Phonetic Transcription : briz

Définition of breezeless

Origin :
  • 1560s, "north or northeast wind," from Old Spanish briza "cold northeast wind;" in West Indies and Spanish Main, the sense shifting to "northeast trade wind," then "fresh wind from the sea." English sense of "gentle or light wind" is from 1620s. An alternative possibility is that the English word is from East Frisian brisen "to blow fresh and strong." The slang for "something easy" is American English, c.1928.
  • adj airless
Example sentences :
  • The air was breezeless and suffocatingly loaded with that dust not yet deposited.
  • Extract from : « Desert Dust » by Edwin L. Sabin
  • It was a breeze in a breezeless night that was sighing amid the ruins.
  • Extract from : « Lothair » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Was it a breeze in a breezeless night that was sighing amid these ruins?
  • Extract from : « Lothair » by Benjamin Disraeli
  • The air was breezeless, the moon as yellow as brass through sultry fogs.
  • Extract from : « When Grandmamma Was New » by Marion Harland
  • The cloudless, breezeless night, though a little chilly, was heavy with the odours of spring and free from the asperity of frost.
  • Extract from : « Some Everyday Folk and Dawn » by Miles Franklin
  • In the forest not a spray moved, nor was there a sweet kiss of the leaves on that breezeless morn.
  • Extract from : « The Cambrian Sketch-Book » by R. Rice Davies
  • There in the velvet pines the moonlight slept calmly, and the shadows rested quietly under the breezeless sky.
  • Extract from : « The Blazed Trail » by Stewart Edward White
  • Truly should we have regretted it, had we but known the breezeless condition on which we were about to enter!
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 » by Various
  • Well, Abdallah, what have you in view that can tempt one to a ramble on such a breezeless morning as this?
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873. » by Various
  • Every move on this hot, breezeless day was an ache, as if he were stepping on live and tender nerves.
  • Extract from : « Mary Lee the Red Cross Girl » by Helen Hart

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