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Downslope Alpine wind that threatens climbers
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foehn
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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.
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 ...
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.