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plural simooms
A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularly of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains. quotations examples
The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
1892, James Yoxall, chapter 5, in The Lonely Pyramid
Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, page 101