spume

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B.C. to the date of their extinction and destruction in 69 or 70 A.D., when the Roman armies marched through Palestine and finally destroyed Jerusalem.

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  1. noun Foam or froth on a liquid, as on the sea.
  2. intransitive verb To froth or foam.

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  • B.C. to the date of their extinction and destruction in 69 or 70 A.D., when the Roman armies marched through Palestine and finally destroyed Jerusalem. —  The Swedish Promise
  • Thrashed like flotsam, she listed in the spume, the corpses of her slaves streaming from the oar-ports. —  Stormwarden
  • She crossed to the windows, but there was nothing to be seen through the lace of spume which blotted out the dark of the day. —  Witch World
  • The energy flux was so great that Carl's body of light shrank smaller than the fine structure of spacetime itself -- and he fell through the fabric of our reality into the seething superspace of quantal-tunnels, spume, and foam-perhaps to expand again in another universe. —  In Other Worlds
  • Unbitten by its whirring sulphur-spume, —  Life of Robert Browning
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French espume, from Latin spūma.

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  1. from Middle English spume, from Old French (and F.) spume = Spanish Portuguese espuma = Italian spuma, from Latin spuma, foam. Cf. foam; cf. also spoom.
  2. from spume, n.
 

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