breeze
/bɹiːz/ noun A2- A light, gentle wind. · The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
- Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult. · After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
- Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
- An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel. · The discovery produced a breeze.
- A brief workout for a racehorse.
Plural breezes
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It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow
Watching all the mighty whalebones, lying buried by the breeze,
“What trial is it?” Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered “Come on!” and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:—
Anne sighed and, dragging her eyes from the witcheries of the spring world, the beckoning day of breeze and blue, and the green things upspringing in the garden, buried herself resolutely in her book.
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