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Definition of Mistral
1. Noun. A strong north wind that blows in France during the winter.
Definition of Mistral
1. n. A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.
Definition of Mistral
1. Noun. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mistral
1. a cold, dry wind [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mistral
Literary usage of Mistral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"Memoirs of mistral; rendered into English by Constance Elisabeth Maud. Lyrics from
the Provencal by Alma Stret- tell... London: E. Arnold, 1907. xi p., 21. ..."
2. The Car that Went Abroad: Motoring Through the Golden Age by Albert Bigelow Paine, Walter Hale (1921)
"The square is called Place du Forum, and sometimes now Place mistral—the latter name
... Frederic mistral, still alive at eighty-three, is the light of the ..."
3. My Life by Emma Calvé (1922)
"B CHAPTER XXIII mistral Y birth, heredity and early association, I am a true
Daughter of the South, and I have therefore always been an ardent admirer and ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1901)
"By Frédéric mistral (1830-). 4. ... corner of France,' as Paul Arene calls
Provence—' the empire of the Sun,' as mistral styles his native land—' the Midi,' ..."
5. A Popular Treatise on the Winds: Comprising the General Motions of the by William Ferrel (1889)
"THE mistral AND THE BORA. 218. Along the whole northern coast of the Mediterranean-
in winter, unusually cold northerly winds frequently prevail for several ..."
6. Old Provence by Theodore Andrea Cook (1905)
"... a dilettante example, but at any rate the last, until the revival of the modern
Fe"libres, and the poems of Roumanille, Aubanel, mistral, and the rest. ..."
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