zephyreanhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zephyrean_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezephyrean, adj.
Revised 2018

zephyreanadjective

  1. 1793–
    Of the nature of, or reminiscent of, a zephyr or light breeze; cf. zephyrian adj.
    Stressed as zephyˈrean.
    1. 1793
      What if the..nymphs of Jordan's flood By the seductive demon of the air With Zephyrean pipe allur'd, command Their fickle urns at will to ebb and flow?
      H. Boyd, Poems 206
    2. 1837
      The voice of Reason, like the zephyrean breath of summer.
      Blackwood's Magazine vol. 41 146
    3. 2014
      Playful, prankish, zephyrean fingers teased his taut and weary skin, stroking him with a long cool hypnotic caress.
      J. J. Patterson & Q. O'Connell, Roughnecks iv. 116

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

zephyr, n. was revised in June 2018.