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spume

noun

ˈspyüm

Definition of spume

as in foam

a light mass of fine bubbles formed in or on a liquid spume floating on the ocean

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Recent Examples of spume But for all those currents to crash together in a great spume of music and emotion on December 18, 1962, artists and audiences required a special room, the basic apparatus of togetherness in Europe’s musical tradition. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024 The rasp, first pressed into the ice block, tense as a spring, suddenly surfs across the berg, scraping up a spume of glittering white snow as stray flecks flutter into the air. — Ethan Pan, Outside Online, 23 May 2024 The water’s edge was frothed into a pink spume - evidence, Kolya speculated, that the artemia were spawning. — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022 Standing on these beaches creates a sense of natural infinity – of white sand, of frothy spume, of blue-green water. — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021 In the intervening seven decades, the event has developed from a small sports-car show and race into a weeklong car-and-lifestyle bacchanal that blankets the Monterey Peninsula in plumes of blue smoke and champagne spume. — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2018

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Beneath that sits a high-density support-foam foundation designed to limit sagging and compression over time, along with a textured anti-slip base to reduce movement on the bed frame.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Aug. 2026
Pumpkin Spice Cold Foam Cold Brew – Vanilla cold brew topped with pumpkin cold foam.

— Saleen Martin, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of foam

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Rough surf and locally hazardous conditions for small craft are also anticipated over the northern Gulf.

— Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
Karina will stay away from land — spinning out its days in the open ocean — but some heavy surf could arrive to the shores of California later this week.

— Sean Macaday, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2026

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