haleine

l'haleine (FR N-F) breath, the mixture of gases upon exhalation from the lungs; exhalation itself; how long one can go without breathing; that which recalls the breathing of someone. First appears in French in 1080 spelled aleine, from OF alener, Latin anhelare, halare (to breathe). (Banville, Hugo, Hyspa, Lhermite, Parny, van Lerberghe)