- a variation of sirocco.
scirocco
Americannoun
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sciroccos
plural
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And Lucy wondered why the long ascent to Nemi was so delightful; why the scirocco seemed to have gone from the air, leaving so purpureal and divine a light on mountain and lake and distance.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The wind has changed and now a scirocco is blowing.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul
Half-way down the path, he turned back to look at her, and saw that she was carrying a light waterproof, which aunt Pattie had forced upon her lest the scirocco should end in rain.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
The scirocco had cast its baleful spell over Rome.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Schubin, Ossip
And here there is an intellectual scirocco established in permanence.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
We have incessant rain, which is as bad as your sciroccos; at least it damps my energies very much.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
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