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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
draughty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's so draughty in here. Is there a window open?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Big enough to accommodate about twelve lads and in winter it was the least draughty.
▪ For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.
▪ He had said hardly anything since we had picked him up at a draughty street corner where the Hanko road leaves Helsinki.
▪ Holly-jack had fled there, and perhaps still hid, terrified, in the cold and draughty rooms.
▪ Keeping the heat inside Sitting in a draughty room will lower your body temperature and make you feel cold and uncomfortable.
▪ She was used to draughty spaces, soaring walls, a nightly ritual of wraps and hot bricks in winter.
▪ They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes, too.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Draughty

Draughty \Draught"y\, a. Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
draughty

1846, from draught + -y (2).

Wiktionary
draughty

a. (standard spelling of drafty from=British spelling English)

WordNet
draughty

  1. adj. not airtight [syn: drafty]

  2. [also: draughtiest, draughtier]

Usage examples of "draughty".

The interminable stripping off in draughty buildings and the washing of hands and chest in buckets of cold water, using scrubbing soap and often a piece of sacking for a towel.

She knew exactly what alterations she was going to make to that big, draughty house, but she knew that she would have to move cautiously, for Donald had emphasised, and strongly, that she must be prepared to live within his means.

It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of so-called training that we received before being sent to the front -- the huge cavalry barracks in Barcelona with its draughty stables and cobbled yards, the icy cold of the pump where one washed, the filthy meals made tolerable by pannikins of wine, the trousered militia-women chopping firewood, and the roll-call in the early mornings where my prosaic English name made a sort of comic interlude among the resounding Spanish ones, Manuel Gonzalez, Pedro Aguilar, Ramon Fenellosa, Roque Ballaster, Jaime Domenech, Sebastian Viltron, Ramon Nuvo Bosch.

Half a dozen of the most senior wizards scurried along the draughty corridor in the wake of the Archchancellor, whose robes billowed ?

It is curious that more vividly than anything that came afterwards in the Spanish war I remember the week of so-called training that we received before being sent to the front -- the huge cavalry barracks in Barcelona with its draughty stables and cobbled yards, the icy cold of the pump where one washed, the filthy meals made tolerable by pannikins of wine, the trousered militia-women chopping firewood, and the roll-call in the early mornings where my prosaic English name made a sort of comic interlude among the resounding Spanish ones, Manuel Gonzalez, Pedro Aguilar, Ramon Fenellosa, Roque Ballaster, Jaime Domenech, Sebastian Viltron, Ramon Nuvo Bosch.

Del Garza considered: perhaps if the Prince was relocated to one of his draughtier dungeons, and word was leaked that he would remain there until his daughter returned .

Del Garza considered: perhaps if the Prince was relocated to one of his draughtier dungeons, and word was leaked that he would remain there until his daughter returned.

Del Garza considered perhaps if the Prince was relocated to one of his draughtier dungeons, and word was leaked that he would remain there until his daughter returned.

Castles were famous for being draughty, but somebody seemed to have taken great care in the mortaring of the cracks in these walls, and the huge, floor-to-ceiling tapestries blocked any flow of air that remained.

Cuckoospit, a magician with horses, had forgotten polite usage for rheum, if he ever knew it, in five draughty years in the TolboothNeal boels cornusHuit moutons tondusSept chiens courantsSix Ii~vres aux champsThese figures, he knew, were the grotesques in the bestiary.