vapours
- n a state of depression
- n a visible suspension in the air of particles of some substance
- n the process of becoming a vapor
- Richard Wagner had a low opinion of Italian music (in Die Meistersinger, Hans Sachs stirringly denounces "Latin vapours and flummery"), but approved of Italian music lovers when .
- The "vapours" of her virginity, explained zoologists, were what attracted the animal, dissipated his fighting spirit.
- In Sheridan's School for Scandal, the prologue clucks hypocritically about rumormongering: "Caus'd by a dearth of scandal, should the vapours Distress our fair ones -- let 'em .