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[ZEF-ahr] 
1. the west wind, or more generally, a soft, gentle breeze: "After a good dip, they climbed back onto the boat and let a passing zephyr dry their bodies."
2. any of various light and delicate fabrics, yarns, or articles of clothing
Origin:
Approximately 1610; from Middle English, 'Zephirus': personification of the west wind; borrowed from Latin, 'zephyrus'; from Greek, 'zephyros': the west wind, probably related to 'zophos': the west, the dark region, gloom. In action:
"The third race in the Royal Torbay Yacht Club Late Wednesday series was blighted by lack of wind. After a delay of nearly an hour a zephyr of wind from the south west enabled the competitors to start the racing.
The Sports Boat class was able to complete two rounds with Hooligan (Norman Broom) making the best of the light airs to be in front of the fleet at the end of the first round."
Kay Rumbelow. "Sailing: Light Winds Pose Problem," The Herald Express (August 7, 2003).
"Is this a spreading of wings that will cast a shadow over the NHL for the next few years?
Or was this a straight-to-video performance, the NHL's version of Ishtar on ice?
Are these Ducks for real or just this year's Carolina Hurricanes, an unlikely participant in the Stanley Cup final riding a two-month burst of brilliance that will flame out come next year?
The Hurricanes made it to the final last spring and turned into a zephyr, missing the playoffs this season.
As he stood on a podium minutes after the Ducks' crushing defeat at the hands of the New Jersey Devils on Monday night, Ducks captain Paul Kariya vowed: 'We'll be back.'"
Chris Stevenson. "Kariya on finals: 'We'll be back'," ESPN.com (June 11, 2003).
"Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr."
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," (1849).
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