Crossword clues for foehn
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 in its descent from the mountains, reaches the base, particularly in winter, dry and warm.
Any similar wind, as the chinook, in other parts of the world.
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.
WordNet
n. a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps [syn: fohn]
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.