sirocco

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɪˈɹɒkoʊ/

Noun

sirocco (plural siroccos)

1. A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.

   Synonyms: ghibli (Libya)

   • 1888 Friedrich Nietzsche, ''The Antichrist 1'

     This tolerance and largeur of the heart that 'forgives' everything because it 'understands' everything, is sirocco for us.

   • 1814 George Gordon, Lord Byron Corsair, i:14

     But come, the board is spread ; our silver lamp / Is trimm'd, and heeds not the sirocco's damp.

2. A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
   • (colloquial) 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 113:

     In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.

Translations

• French: sirocco
• German: Scirocco, Schirokko
• Italian: scirocco
• Portuguese: siroco, xaroco
• Russian: сиро́кко
• Spanish: siroco

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