sirocco
noun
a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
siroccos
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pluralof sirocco.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fatal and beautiful colors lurked in the swamps, and in the sifting dust, fine and hard, blown by siroccos across the glare of noon, like sands on the shores of the Lake of Fire.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
And it is not only the siroccos that help forward His purpose for us!
From Parables of the Christ-life by I. Lilias Trotter
What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent?
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds.
From The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
