coolth
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- IPA(key): /kuːlθ/
Noun
coolth (usually uncountable, plural coolths)
- The state of being cool, temperature-wise; coolness.
- 1842, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay:
- In the evening my father and Mrs Thrale seated themselves out of doors, just before the Blue-room windows, for coolth and chat; […]
- 1901, Rudyard Kipling, Kim:
- Through the speckled shadow of the great deodar-forests […] and back into the woodlands’ coolth again […]
- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Penguin 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 628:
- The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.
- 2012, David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change:
- This they do, not only convectively by passing cooler air over the skins of building occupants, but also using radiant coolth.
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