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noun
A type of light, crisp cracker, used primarily for some hors d'oeuvres.
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noun
A daughter of Aeolus; a tiny female spirit of the wind.
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noun
An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.
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Usage: historical
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noun
A lightweight print fabric used for women's dresses.
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History
From zephyr + -ette.
From zephyr (“light wind from the west”) + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning the female equivalent of something). Zephyr is derived from Latin zephyrus, Zephyrus (“personification of the west wind”), from Ancient Greek Ζέφῠρος (Zéphŭros, “personification of the west wind”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h3yebh- (“to enter, penetrate; to copulate”). Sense 1 (“on-board hostess”) is derived from the California Zephyr train.
