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Mountain wind
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foehn
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foehn \Foehn\, n. [G. dial. (Swiss), fr. L. Favonius west wind. Cf. Favonian .] (Meteor.) A warm dry wind that often blows in the northern valleys of the Alps, due to the indraught of a storm center passing over Central Europe. The wind, heated by compression ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps [syn: fohn ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. 2 (context meteorology English) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.
Usage examples of foehn.
Such views were made possible by the northern wind that drove through the gorges and chasms with such force that it produced a foehn effect.
A warm wind means the foehn, the snow-melter, that will break the season.
Rumors of her secret betrothal had rushed around the Settlement like a foehn wind-- unsettling.
In its milder moments, as a mistral or a foehn, it can drive you mad by its sheer monotony.
I am so bowled over by all this, I have come down with something resembling undulant fever, or maybe what the Germans call Foehn, but with some kind of virus thrown in.