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• mistral
  mistral

  noun

  a cold, dry, northerly wind common in southern France and neighboring regions.
• Mistral
  Mistral

  noun

  Frédéric 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel Prize 1904.

mistral

¹ American  

[mis-truhl, mi-strahl] / ˈmɪs trəl, mɪˈstrɑl /

noun

1. a cold, dry, northerly wind common in southern France and neighboring regions.

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Mistral ² American  

[mee-stral, mees-trahl] / miˈstral, misˈtrɑl /

noun

1. Frédéric 1830–1914, French Provençal poet: Nobel Prize 1904.

2. Gabriela Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, 1889–1957, Chilean poet and educator: Nobel Prize in literature 1945.

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Mistral ¹ British  

noun

1. Frédéric (frederik). 1830–1914, French Provençal poet, who led a movement to revive Provençal language and literature: shared the Nobel prize for literature 1904

2. Gabriela (ɡaˈβrjela), pen name of Lucila Godoy de Alcayaga. 1889–1957, Chilean poet, educationalist, and diplomatist. Her poetry includes the collection Desolación (1922): Nobel prize for literature 1945

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mistral ² British  

/ mɪˈstrɑːl, ˈmɪstrəl /

noun

1. a strong cold dry wind that blows through the Rhône valley and S France to the Mediterranean coast, mainly in the winter

2. the class of board used in international windsurfing competitions, weighing 15kg and measuring 372cm × 64cm

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Etymology

Origin of mistral

1595–1605; < Middle French < Provençal; Old Provençal maistral < Latin magistrālis magistral

Example Sentences

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The expected return of the mistral wind has raised fears of a further deterioration in conditions, authorities said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026

“It’s time to acknowledge that mistral hygiene products are not luxury items but essential necessities for the health and liberty of individuals,” Mote said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

The cavern opens to the north, where a cold and powerful wind known as the mistral breathes dust under the rock shelter.

From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2022

Or the mistral will blow from somewhere between north-west and east and all hell will break loose late on as the bunch splinters in the wind.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2021

He battled the fierce mistral winds in the South of France, only giving up when his easel would not stay anchored.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Mistral, for its part, has been a staunch defender of open-weight models, saying they give users the flexibility to tailor them to their needs while protecting their data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

Mistral has been shoring up its network of alliances lately.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

He compared French AI company Mistral raising about $3 billion at a $30 billion valuation to the likely $1 trillion to $2 trillion valuations for OpenAI and Anthropic when they list.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

While still an upstart compared to AI giants OpenAI or Anthropic, Mistral says it is winning clients by offering models they can run themselves with their own data.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

I was reading some poems of Gabriela Mistral and told her so.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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