See Also: vapourer(dictionary)

Kievan (iou) and vapourer (iou)


Kievan (iou)



Kievan adjective. M20.
[from Kiev (see below) + -AN.]
Of or pertaining to the Ukrainian city of Kiev, esp. in the historical period (c 900-c 1150) when it dominated European Russia.
Also Kievian adjective E20.

vapourer (iou)



vapourer noun. In sense 1 also *vaporer. M17.
[from VAPOUR verb + -ER1.]
A person who vapours; a boastful, grandiloquent, or vacuous talker. M17.
In full vapourer moth. A European day-flying moth of the genus Orgyia, the females of which are wingless and the larvae very hairy, esp. the red-brown O. antiqua. M17.