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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

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Example Sentences

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He reminds us that two notorious winds, the mistral and the bora, have been known to drive men mad.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

“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

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

The final challenge was a 130-kilometer ride ending in the race up Mont Ventoux on 19 June, a miserably cold day with an icy mistral blowing down the moonlike landscape.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 13, 2016

At this point the priest left and I told the story about the travelling salesman who arrived at five o’clock in the morning at Marseilles when the mistral was blowing.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway

French AI startup Mistral released a new open-weight AI model, called Mistral Large 4 or “Le Chonk” on Thursday, calling the model the best open-weight model in coding and cybersecurity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Mistral said the model was trained on more than 160 languages, and can answer prompts and questions in each one natively.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

As well as Black Forest Labs, Europe has other competitive AI companies, including France's Mistral, but is still seen as trailing US firms such as OpenAI and Anthropic and Chinese labs such as DeepSeek.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

Mistral will become the recommended AI model through Smart Window, giving the startup exposure to millions of Firefox users.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

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

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

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