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Definition of Sirocco
1. Noun. A windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand. "It was the kind of duster not experienced in years"
Definition of Sirocco
1. n. An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.
2. n. In general, any hot dry wind of cyclonic origin, blowing from arid or heated regions, including the desert wind of Southern California, the harmattan of the west coasts of Africa, the hot winds of Kansas and Texas, the kamsin of Egypt, the leste of the Madeira Islands, and the leveche of Spain.
Definition of Sirocco
1. Noun. A hot southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions. ¹
2. Noun. A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sirocco
1. a hot, dry wind [n -COS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sirocco
Literary usage of Sirocco
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Meteorology: With Questions for Examinations : Designed for by John Brocklesby (1849)
"sirocco. This name is given to a south-east wind which prevails in the ...
These effects are attributed to the fact, that the sirocco, at this time, ..."
2. A Popular Treatise on the Winds: Comprising the General Motions of the by William Ferrel (1889)
"The dust raised from the Sahara and carried northward by the sirocco often falls
over the countries north of the Mediterranean as " blood rain" or as " red ..."
3. The Resources of California by John Shertzer Hittell (1867)
"The sirocco.—One case, and only one, is on record, of a sirocco, or burning-hot
wind, visiting the coast. This one was felt at the town of Santa Barbara, ..."
4. A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford by Patrick Brydone (1817)
"This morning the melancholy sirocco left us; and in place of it we have gotten
... Had the sirocco blown as yesterday, we should probably have been in tears ..."
5. Mummies and Moslems by Charles Dudley Warner (1876)
"And yet, there is the sirocco; that enervating, depressing south wind, ...
The sirocco is bad enough in the town, the fine dust penetrates the closed ..."
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