Meaning of haar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
   Northern-England, Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable
2. A municipality near Munich, Germany.
3. A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
   Scotland, countable, especially, uncountable

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Examples

“The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.”

“[…] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]”

“[An] easterly haar was blowing in off the sea, the cold wind bringing with it a thick fog that crawled under the collar and clung to the skin. Ahead, the road disappeared as the fog hid anything on either side of the hedges save for the[…]”

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