mountain wind
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mountain wind
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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A mountain wind alters the ball’s path to the right fielder.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022
The whites, made of local grapes like altesse, mondeuse blanche and jacquère, all seem to have a breezy, cool feel to them, as if a fresh mountain wind were blowing right at you.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2021
For centuries, people in the Alps have attributed health issues, headaches in particular, to the mountain wind known as the Foehn.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2017
The parched, scabrous earth was pockmarked with foxholes in which hundreds upon hundreds of families crouched for shelter against the chill mountain wind.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mountain wind was cool; it smelled like springs hidden deep in mossy black stone.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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