- a variation of sirocco.
scirocco
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sciroccos
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The vast city, devastated for the last time by the Saracens in 878 A.D., has been reduced to dust and swept by the scirocco into the sea.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
One exchanges complaints upon the subject of the weather, the scirocco, the rain.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
Northerners who have never been in Rome have no idea of the nature of the scirocco; they suppose it to be a storm of hot wind.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Ossip Schubin
The wind has changed and now a scirocco is blowing.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
The Dries last from November to April, often beginning with tornadoes and ending with the Harmatan, smokes or scirocco.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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 William Aldis Wright
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