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Answer for the clue "A strong north wind that blows in France during the winter ", 7 letters:
mistral

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Mistral is a casual script typeface designed by Roger Excoffon for the Fonderie Olive type foundry , and released in 1953. The Amsterdam Type foundry released a version in 1955. Excoffon based the form of the typeface on his own handwriting. The stroke ...

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n. a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mistral \Mis"tral\, n. [F., fr. Proven[,c]al.] A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

Usage examples of mistral.

Mistral, the singer of Provence, the poet of love and joy, the minstrel of rustic labour and antique faiths, was pursuing, amid the homage of his apotheosis, the incredible cycle of his splendid existence.

The two of them were talking quietly with a lean, distinguished-looking man who was quite well preserved for sixty, but more conservatively dressed than Surn or Mistral.

And Curtis was from Baltimore, Mistral was a Brooklynite, and Peter Deddingfield and I grew up in Richmond.

Mistral dragged Pandor down from the cart and spotting a hose nearby, picked it up and turned the jet of water onto her at full blast, almost knocking her over.

So here he was, still in Bayonne wth a mouth full of high-fiber bran, while the likes of Mistral and Fatman and Peregrine were sitting under a pagoda somewhere, eating whatever the hell the Japanese ate for breakfast.

Mistral winced at the thought of spending an entire weekend in a dreary burg in Maryland, signing autographs and telling high school kids how to make it in Hollywood.

Ashley, agent for Ruben Mistral and architect of the Lanthanides package, had hosted a prime-rib dinner for the group earlier in the evening, but she had wisely refrained from discussing business except to say that she for one felt privileged to be present at the making of a science fiction legend.

You get Mistral or Surn to give you a general description of the plot, and then you farm out the story to somebody famous who can really write.

Do you want one of those simoons, or blizzards, or mistrals, or whatever you call them?

Time after time they told her how the flood had come, drowning their homes, their livings, throwing them out into the world, to friends and family they hadn’t seen in years, forcing them into new patterns and reliances, breaking the mold of their lives and thrusting them out into the mistral.

Time after time they told her how the flood had come, drowning their homes, their livings, throwing them out into the world, to friends and family they hadn't seen in years, forcing them into new patterns and reliances, breaking the mold of their lives and thrusting them out into the mistral.

Mistral Thrax had attempted to capture history, and in grasping it realized that it went both ways - back through time to what had been and forward somehow to hint at what might yet be.

Mistral Thrax had attempted to capture history, and in grasping it realized that it went both ways —.