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through-draft en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of through-draught.
    • All the internal doors were wedged wide, and there were upper windows open sufficient to make sure that there would be a strong through-draft. 2011, Elizabeth Corley, Fatal Legacy:
    • She opened two more windows, trying to get a through-draft. 2014, Rachel Seiffert, The Walk Home:
    • It was another scorcher of a summer that year and the temperature in the flat was almost unbearable, even with the glass windows kept covered up all day: we had the front door open to try to create a through-draft. 2015, Martyn Bedford, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Adam Marek, Beta-Life: Stories From an A-Life Future:

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