Meaning of harmattan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dry and dusty wind which blows from the Sahara over the Atlantic coast of West Africa in December, January and February, being a hot wind in some areas and a cold wind in others.
2. A season which spans the period in which the harmattan wind blows.

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Examples

“Storm-clouds stretched their arms across the sky; from the east, to all appearances, might come a fierce harmattan, or from the south might come the fierce hurricane.”

“That was many years ago, twenty years or more, and during this time Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan.”

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