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English
Etymology
From Latin effumare (“to emit smoke”), from ex + fumare (“to smoke”), from fumus (“smoke”).
Verb
effume (third-person singular simple present effumes, present participle effuming, simple past and past participle effumed)
- (obsolete) To breathe or puff out.
1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. , London: for William Holme, , published 1600, →OCLC, Act III, scene i, signature [I iiij], verso:I can make this dog take as many whiffes as I liſt, and he ſhall retaine or efume them at my pleaſure.
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