Meaning of etesian | Babel Free

Definitions

Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator […], or from those great dropping perpetual showers […]?”

“[…] Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town.”

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