English

Alternative forms

• vapory (US)

Adjective

vapoury ‎(comparative more vapoury, superlative most vapoury)

1. Resembling or characteristic of vapour.
   • 1869, Lewis Carroll, Phantasmagoria, Canto I

     And still he seemed to grow more white, / More vapoury, and wavier— / Seen in the dim and flickering light, / As he proceeded to recite / His “Maxims of Behaviour.”

   • 1921, Lafcadio Hearn, "Karma" in Karma and Other Stories and Essays, London: George G. Harrap & Co., p. 40,

     And those white shapes enfolding her were surely never bridal veils, but vapoury wings that rose above her golden head, and swept down curving to her feet.

   • See also quotations under vapory.