zephyroushttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zephyrous_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezephyrous, adj.
Revised 2018

zephyrousadjective

  1. a1750–
    Of, relating to, or reminiscent of, a zephyr or light breeze; cf. zephyrean adj., zephyrian adj.
    Stressed as ˈzephyrous.
    1. a1750
      Hither no winds, but zephyrous breaths repair.
      A. Hill, Works (1753) vol. I. 345
    2. 1906
      It was delicately tentative in tone; a zephyrous intimation, one might say, and hardly more.
      Lippincott's Monthly Magazine June 696
    3. 2015
      I climb..to the top to be rewarded with a stupendous view: sapphirine sea, gin-clear sky, beaming sun and my face kissed by a zephyrous breeze.
      Sunday Times (Nexis) 24 (Travel section) 19

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

zephyr, n. was revised in June 2018.