Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See khamsin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A hot southwesterly wind in Egypt, coming from the Sahara.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of khamsin.

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Examples

  • Going out one morning I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the kamsin wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms.

    Eothen 2003

  • Going out one morning I met unexpectedly the scorching breath of the kamsin wind, and fearing that I should faint under the horrible sensations which it caused, I returned to my rooms.

    Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850

  • The pestilential winds of the east are described by various authors under various denominations; as harmattan, samiel, samium, syrocca, kamsin, seravansum.

    The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

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