zephyr-likehttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zephyr-like_adv%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezephyr-like, adv. & adj.
First published 2017

zephyr-likeadverb & adjective

  1. 1765–
    a. adv. In the manner of a zephyr or light breeze; b. adj. of the nature of, or suggestive of, a zephyr or light breeze.
    Stressed as ˈzephyr-like.
    1. 1765
      Not Zephyr-like, through osiers wreath'd, My strains had innocently breath'd, But..with the voice of thunder spoke.
      W. Stevenson, Original Poems vol. II. 92
    2. 1789
      A mild, gentle, zephyr-like breeze.
      B. Taylor, Lect. Atmosphere London 4
    3. 1832
      [She] seems not to belong to earth, but rather, as she glides zephyr-like across it.., to hold communion with kindred spirits in the skies.
      Reviewer 12 August 106/1
    4. 1924
      The zephyr like sentences, each following on the heel of another in a rapid flow..did not hold the audience in fascination at first.
      Times of India 27 August 11/5
    5. 1992
      It [sc. the air conditioning] wafts, zephyrlike, over the body, dries the moist brow.
      New York Times (Nexis) 3 September c19
    6. 2010
      The whispering zephyr-like swish from the long black robes of the nuns.
      J. J. Patterson, Bermuda Shorts 77

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

zephyr-like, adv. & adj. was first published in 2017.