vaporous

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The photographs in the cracked show-cases were brown and vaporous, and the announcements of vanilla ice-cream were but breaths of lettering, blown on stained walls.

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  1. adjective Relating to or resembling vapor.
  2. adjective Producing vapors; volatile.
  3. adjective Full of vapors.
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  • But one could never explain good things for vaporous, potential future children to someone whose heart and soul was twisted by the suffering of an actual, real-life child So a better and different kind of fab had come into being. —  FSF,January2007
  • From down here the clouds looked like a vaporous cover thrown over the theater. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • Sound is rather vaporous, mineral, crystaline, theme progresses and reaches its climax at the end. —  Latest reviews @ Progarchives.com, the ultimate progressive rock music website
  • I'll post something here when I have something non-vaporous to post about. —  eHam.net News
  • She is vapid, vague and vaporous - think Algore sighing. —  WordPress.com News
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  1. Formerly also vaprous; = French vaporeux = Spanish Portuguese Italian vaporoso, from Late Latin vaporosus, full of steam or vapor, from Latin vapor, steam, vapor: see vapor.
 

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