English
Zephyrette
From zephyr (“light wind from the west”) + -ette (suffix forming nouns meaning the female equivalent of something).
Formed from zephyr ‘light wind from the west’ + -ette
The story
Zephyr is derived from Latin zephyrus, Zephyrus (‘personification of the west wind’), from Ancient Greek Ζέφῠρος (Zéphŭros, “personification of the west wind”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃yebʰ- (‘to enter, penetrate; to copulate’). Sense 1 (‘on-board hostess’) is derived from the California Zephyr train.
Today it means
noun An on-board hostess on the California Zephyr train, which originally operated between 1949 and 1970.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Zephyrette