sirocco
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Italian scirocco (“south-east wind”), from Maghrebi Arabic شَلُوق (šalūq).
Pronunciation
Noun
sirocco (plural siroccos)
- A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
- Synonym: ghibli (Libya)
- 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist 1'
- This tolerance and largeur of the heart that 'forgives' everything because it 'understands' everything, is sirocco for us.
- 1814 George Gordon, Lord Byron Corsair, i:14
- But come, the board is spread ; our silver lamp / Is trimm'd, and heeds not the sirocco's damp.
- A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
- (colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113:
- In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.
- (colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113:
Translations
wind
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References
- 1896 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, vol 4 p 4286
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian scirocco.
Pronunciation
Noun
sirocco m (plural sirocco's)
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