Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
khamsin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
khamsin .
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Examples
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Going out one morning I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the kamsin wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms.
Eothen 2003
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Going out one morning I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the kamsin wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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The pestilential winds of the east are described by various authors under various denominations; as harmattan, samiel, samium, syrocca, kamsin, seravansum.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766
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