waftage

[ wahf-tij, waf- ]

noun

1. the act of wafting.
2. the state of being wafted.

Word History and Origins

Origin of waftage¹

First recorded in 1550–60; waft + -age

Example Sentences

Thus Trimalchio says, 'I threw thy Cerberus a sleepy morsel, And paid thy Charon for my waftage over, And I have a golden sprig for my Proserpina.

From Project Gutenberg

But attention has also been given to the employment of this kind of �rostation as a means of support and conveyance; and kites have been made as much as thirty feet high, looking more like buoyant sails than boyish playthings, and exerting an immense power of waftage.

From Project Gutenberg

Or I throw my whole being into Troilus, and repeating those lines, ‘I wander like a lost Soul upon the Stygian Banks staying for waftage,’ I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone.

From Project Gutenberg

Or I throw my whole being into Troilus, and repeating those lines, “I wander like a lost Soul upon the stygian Banks staying for waftage,” I melt into the air with a voluptuousness so delicate that I am content to be alone.

From Project Gutenberg

The well-rig’d Nauie falne into the Road, For this short Cut with victuall fully stor’d, The King impatient of their long aboad, Commands his Army instantly aboard, Casting to haue each Company bestow’d, As then the time conuenience could afford; The Ships appointed wherein they should goe, And Boats prepar’d for waftage to and fro.

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