Euroclydon
Americannoun
noun
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a stormy wind from the north or northeast that occurs in the Levant, which caused the ship in which St Paul was travelling to be wrecked (Acts 27:14)
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any stormy wind
Etymology
Origin of Euroclydon
1605–15; < Greek euroklýdōn, equivalent to Eúro ( s ) Eurus + klýdōn wave, surge; compare klýzein to dash against, wash
Example Sentences
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By the way what is a Euroclydon; is it a Levanter?
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)
In the New Testament he becomes Euroclydon, wind of the waves.
From Wind and Weather by McAdie, Alexander
Euroclydon of the Red Head was the other name of the Reverend Sylvanus Septimus Cobb during his student days—nothing more piratical than that.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And so Euroclydon hurried us on to Sybaris.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
It was the Euroclydon that swept the trees from Malta, and nineteen hundred years have not repaired the ravage of that storm.
From The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise by Paine, Albert Bigelow
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