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n. - A state of depression.

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  • But these opposing winds, laden with vapours from the two hemispheres, had each their mission, and worked under an appointed law.
  • A red sun near its dropping, drew up the miasmic vapours from the mangrove-fringed reaches stretching on either side of the wharf.
  • -- Hour-glass waist-line and attendant "vapours" were thought to be in the rôle of a high-born
  • In the full-blooded days of the early Georges the complaint was "vapours," otherwise liver, but no one troubled about nerves.
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