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‖ terral|teˈral| [Sp., f. L. terra land; so F. terral.] The land-breeze off the coast of Spain or South America.
1863H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons II. ii. 144 Canoes, in descending, only travel at night, when the terral, or light land-breeze, blows off the eastern shore. 1884H. Collingwood Under Meteor Flag 299 Obliged to take to our sweeps to get across the calm belt between the terral and the trade-wind. 1928Bryologist XXXI. 125 The weather was very cold. We had been feeling the intense icy blasts of the Terral wind from the North [of Spain]. 1953W. G. Kendrew Climates of Continents (ed. 4) xxxix. 481 The sea-breeze (virazon) and land-breeze (terral) are regular and prominent; the sea-breeze is often so strong on summer afternoons at Valparaiso..that boat-work is stopped. 1961L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 448/2 Terral, the land breeze along the coasts of western Peru. |