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- noun Plural form of
etesian .
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Autumn; especially the Spring, shaded (if it prove too hot and scorching) till they begin to shoot of themselves, and in very sharp weather, and during our eastern _etesians_, cover’d with dry straw or haume; and if any of them seem to perish, cut it close, and you shall soon see it revive.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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