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prettygoodwordwafture (WAF-cher) - (arch.) n., something that is wafted (as a scent or sound); the act of wafting something.
The sense of waft as to float gently, either through the air or on water. I encountered it in a poem from around the turn of 20th century, and I'm amused to see the only recent citations in dictionaries are all poems as well -- though older citations are all prose. Dates to around 1600, a noun form of waft, which goes back to Middle English but otherwise of uncertain origin, possibly related to Old English wafian, to wave.
---L.
The sense of waft as to float gently, either through the air or on water. I encountered it in a poem from around the turn of 20th century, and I'm amused to see the only recent citations in dictionaries are all poems as well -- though older citations are all prose. Dates to around 1600, a noun form of waft, which goes back to Middle English but otherwise of uncertain origin, possibly related to Old English wafian, to wave.
---L.
