Both Uses of
exhalation
in
Don Quixote
- But one thing thou wilt not deny, Sancho; when thou camest close to her didst thou not perceive a Sabaean odour, an aromatic fragrance, a, I know not what, delicious, that I cannot find a name for; I mean a redolence, an exhalation, as if thou wert in the shop of some dainty glover?†
Chpt 1.31-32 *exhalation = the act of breathing air out of the lungs
- Night now closed in more completely, and many lights began to flit through the wood, just as those fiery exhalations from the earth, that look like shooting-stars to our eyes, flit through the heavens; a frightful noise, too, was heard, like that made by the solid wheels the ox-carts usually have, by the harsh, ceaseless creaking of which, they say, the bears and wolves are put to flight, if there happen to be any where they are passing.†
Chpt 2.33-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(exhalation) the act of breathing air out of the lungs; or the air breathed out
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, exhalation may reference fumes or even lights in the sky such as a meteor.