spume
pronunciation
How to pronounce spume in British English:
UK [spju:m]
How to pronounce spume in American English:
US [spjum]
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- Noun:
- foam or froth on the sea
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- Verb:
- make froth or foam and become bubbly
Word Origin
- spume
- spume: see foam
- spume (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French spume, from Latin spuma "foam" (also source of Italian spuma, Spanish espuma); cognate with Old English fam, Old High German veim "foam" (see foam (n.)).
Example
- 1. The white and icy spume hissing into the sea .
- 2. Plato thought nature but a spume that plays .
- 3. At dulwich is a painting , hero and leandro ( for christopher marlowe ) , that is a white misty spume of oceanic spray assailed by a bloody smear of red . Blood in water , it seemed to me .
- 4. My dream is over , maybe it 's really because when I get out from the sea , I already became the spume .
- 5. The air smacks of the sea less than twenty miles away , the waters of the lakes are mirrors and the falls spume from a hidden reservoir of energy inside peaceful hills that take your breath away .