vapourish

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resembling or characteristic of vapor

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Finally, Misomedon, Polytheca's husband, curses his vapourish wife, who does "nothing but [thwart] and [contradict] [him]"; it is he who gets the last word (234).

The view that women--especially single ones--were somehow innately vapourish is ridiculed: "I like you was born a woman," the speaker asserts, "Well I know what vapours mean: / The disease, alas!

Of wandering wombs and wrongs of women: evolving conceptions of hysteria in the age of reason

Nowhere, when the reciters seem so bound by the misguided idea to give meaning to these vapourish verses.

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Notable among the airy French pictures of the nineteenth century are Boudin's evocation of clouds hustling in a vapourish swing across the marshy spits of the River Touques (Berwick); the mottled undergrowth of Sisley's wooded landscape (Southampton); and Fantin-Latour's broad-bosomed flowers constrained in a narrow vase (Barnard Castle).

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