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The act of floating gently through the air or state of being carried lightly and gently through the air.

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Usage examples (22)
  • I have walked London streets for twelve and fifteen hours together without even a thought of saving my legs or my time, by paying for waftage.
  • Tummel -- for he used to build in the cliffs of Ben-Brackie, and if he has shifted his eyrie, a few minutes 'waftage will bear him to Cairn-Gower.
  • To make the scene perfectly realistic there is a smell of breakfast cooking, not unpleasant to those within its waftage who are yet to have their appetites appeased.
  • Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore:
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