sirocco
IPA: sɪrˈoʊkoʊ
noun
- A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
- A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
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Examples of "sirocco" in Sentences
- Sirocco is a Mediterranean wind.
- The Sirocco is also there at No.5.
- Sirocco is a play, in four acts, by Noel Coward.
- Similar winds in the area are sirocco and simoom.
- We're having a heatwave here complete with sirocco.
- The Schools compete for the PSA Schools Sirocco Shield.
- Called a SIROCCO in other parts of the Mediterranean area.
- Black Raazer and Sirocco are the only active members left.
- GSW has two student publications the Sirocco and the Sou'Wester.
- Sirocco is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe.
- There is a wind in southern Europe called the sirocco, known in Berdych's Czech Republic as the jugo.
- The word sirocco does not occur in his pages save once, when he laments its prevalence on the mainland. "
- It is susceptible to hot, dry, dust-laden southern wind called the sirocco or "ghibli" which lasts one to four days in spring and fall; and, from dust storms and sandstorms.
- The sirocco is the same, year after year, although there is a kind of conspiracy among the foreign residents to say that it happens to be worse than usual that particular season.
- At one time, and particularly on my first emergence from my prison, there was certainly a cold wind blowing down the shaft, and later there was a kind of sirocco upward that corresponded with my fever.
- Climate: Arid to semiarid; mild, wet winters with hot, dry summers along coast; drier with cold winters and hot summers on high plateau; a hot, dust / sand-laden wind called sirocco is especially common in summer.
- We had encountered that blasting wind known as the "sirocco" -- the scourge of the Mediterranean -- which after gathering force and heat in the African deserts comes with its fiery and sand-laden breath to sap the moisture from all who have not the natures of salamanders.