through-draft

English

Noun

through-draft (plural through-drafts)

1. Alternative form of through-draught
   • 2011, Elizabeth Corley, Fatal Legacy:

     All the internal doors were wedged wide, and there were upper windows open sufficient to make sure that there would be a strong through-draft.

   • 2014, Rachel Seiffert, The Walk Home:

     She opened two more windows, trying to get a through-draft.

   • 2015, Martyn Bedford, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Adam Marek, Beta-Life: Stories From an A-Life Future:

     It was another scorcher of a summer that year and the temperature in the flat was almost unbearable, even with the glass windows kept covered up all day: we had the front door open to try to create a through-draft.