zephyrethttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zephyret_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezephyret, n.
Revised 2018

† zephyretnoun

Chiefly poetic. Obsolete.
  1. 1777–1881
    A gentle zephyr; a light breeze. Also in extended use.
    1. 1777
      The soft zephyrets that panting die In soothing murmurs the still vales along.
      T. Burgess, Bagley sig. B
    2. 1848
      To..send the zephyrets [German Zephyretten] of pleasure through artistic bellows and air-pumps, to the little flowers.
      A. H., translation of J. P. F. Richter, Levana iii. iii. 115
    3. 1881
      Some zephyret Answering in softest whisper.
      New Monthly Magazine November 491

Originally published as part of the entry for zephyr, n.

zephyret, n. was revised in June 2018.

zephyret, n. was last modified in July 2023.