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plural siroccos
A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions. quotations examples
This tolerance and largeur of the heart that ‘forgives’ everything because it ‘understands’ everything, is sirocco for us.
1888, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist 1
But come, the board is spread; our silver lamp / Is trimm’d, and heeds not the sirocco’s damp.
1814, George Gordon, Corsair, i:14
A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat. quotations examples
In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.
(colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, page 113