Crossword clues for mistral
mistral
- Cold, dry European wind
- Mediterranean wind
- Strong, cold wind
- Medit. wind
- Dry, cold northerly wind
- Violent northeast wind of southern France
- Strong wind of southern France
- Strong wind down the 20 valley
- Strong north wind in southern France
- Strong north wind in France
- Dry Mediterranean wind
- Cold, dry wind of France
- Cold, dry wind across Europe
- A strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
- Co-Nobelist in Literature: 1904
- Cold wind of France
- Wind of S France
- Cold dry wind in southern France
- Wind the French right up with marches in Strasbourg initially
- Wind and spray both sides crossing midpoint of dam
- Kangaroo court maybe has released one: a blow
- Strong wind and cloud over river and a lake
- Slight fog starts to roll away over lake — there's a wind
- French wind
- Beneath mountain peak, diverging trails wind
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cold northerly wind on the Mediterranean coast of France," c.1600, from French, from Provençal mistral, literally "the dominant wind," from mistral (adj.) "dominant," from Latin magistralis "dominant," from magister "master" (see master (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
WordNet
n. a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
Wikipedia
The mistral (, ) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean, with sustained winds often exceeding , sometimes reaching . It is most common in the winter and spring, and strongest in the transition between the two seasons. Periods of the wind exceeding for more than sixty-five hours have been reported.
In France, it refers to a violent, cold, north or northwest wind that accelerates when it passes through the valleys of the Rhone and the Durance Rivers to the coast of the Mediterranean around the Camargue region. It affects the northeast of the plain of Languedoc and Provence to the east of Toulon, where it is felt as a strong west wind. It has a major influence all along the Mediterranean coast of France, and often causes sudden storms in the Mediterranean between Corsica and the Balearic Islands.
The name mistral comes from the Languedoc dialect of the Occitan and means "masterly". The same wind is called mistrau in the Provençal variant of Occitan, mestral in Catalan, maestrale in Italian and Corsican, maistràle or bentu maestru in Sardinian, and majjistral in Maltese.
The mistral is usually accompanied by clear, fresh weather, and it plays an important role in creating the climate of Provence. It can reach speeds of more than , particularly in the Rhone Valley. Its average speed during the day can reach about , calming noticeably at night. The mistral usually blows in winter or spring, though it occurs in all seasons. It sometimes lasts only one or two days, frequently lasts several days, and sometimes lasts more than a week.
Mistral is an infrared homing surface-to-air missile manufactured by the European multinational company MBDA missile systems (formerly by Matra BAe Dynamics). Based on the French SATCP (Sol-Air À Très Courte Portée), the portable missile later to become the Mistral began development in 1974. It was initially deployed in 1988 for the first version (S1) and 1997 for the second version (M2).
Mistral commonly refers to the Mistral (wind) in southern France and Sardinia.
Mistral may also refer to:
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 has an informal graphic quality similar to brush and ink. The lowercase letters are carefully designed to connect on a line to an extent unusual in script fonts. Descenders are long, and increase the sense of motion. The face has several specially-designed ligatures (which have not been duplicated in digital versions). In lowercase Mistral is a true connecting script, similar to cursive writing.
Mistral is a studio album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard released on the Liberty label which features performances by Hubbard, Phil Ranelin, Art Pepper, George Cables, Peter Wolf, Roland Bautista, Stanley Clarke, Peter Erskine and Paulinho da Costa.
Mistral is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 110 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. Mistral is named for the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, who lived from 1889 to 1957.
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 —.