Meaning of mistral | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname from French.
2. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
3. Frédéric Mistral (French writer)

Equivalents

Examples

“I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.”

“The mistral had been blowing for three days now and the sea showed more white than blue”

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