wafture UK /ˈwɒf.t͡ʃə/US /ˈwɑf.t͡ʃɚ/ noun2 •(no longer used) The act of wafting something.[…] you answer’d not, / But, with an angry wafture of your hand, / Gave sign for me to leave you: — 1599 •(no longer used) Something that is wafted, such as a smell or sound.lower roofs, from which, as from hanging gardens, floated waftures sweet as the perfumed airs of the Indian isles — 1873 formswaftures