- plural of effluvium.
effluvia
Example Sentences
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One turbine spins in the fiery effluvia of engine exhaust, with temperatures around 1,000 degrees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Many Wallingford houses were built to avoid the hellish view of tower effluvia.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
Today's equivalent might be a sewer worker - but rather than scrabbling through effluvia for scrap metal they go underground for maintenance, such as the grim job of clearing fatbergs.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
But she also makes you fear for Alexia, who can outrun the authorities but can’t escape the agonizing contortions and messy alien effluvia of her own body.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2021
The interior is very clean; but from the fish and other articles of food kept in them, you may readily imagine the effluvia is not very pleasant to European nicety.
From Samboe; or, The African Boy by Mary Ann Hedge
