Definition of "luft" [luft]

• A Middle English form of left.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "So at around 5 am, the temp under my covers passing 4000 degrees, I had no choice but to get up, strip, open my windows all the way up, and knot my curtains to allow a little "luft" into the room, as the new Pope Benedict XVI would say."
• "That you might not recognize yourself without the people you get used to passing, the smell of aggression and luft and theater that wafts up and down Broadway?"
• "Bondebjerg traveled extensively in Morocco, Tunisia, Eygpt, Turkey, Lebanon and Jordon, and published a travel journal, Den anden luft: Rejsenotater from Nordafrika or Mellemøsten of his stays in those countries."