Definition of "vapory" []

• Vaporous. (adjective)

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• "One would say that Nagasaki is ascending at the same time as ourselves; but yonder, and very far away, in a kind of vapory mist which seems luminous on the blackness of the sky; and from the town there rises a confused murmur of voices and rumbling of gongs and laughter."
• "And then a hand almost snatches it: a vapory hand with broken pink fingernails and cracked, burned skin."
• "Even more beautifulwas that vapory vibration of accumulated sounds that never ceased for a moment, as it rose to the lip of granite where I stood wiping my foul mouth."