单词 | land-breeze |
释义 | land-breezen. A breeze blowing from the land seawards. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land land-wind1598 land-breeze1667 out-wind1669 1667 H. Stubbe in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 499 There is little of Land-brise, because the Mountain is remote from thence. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 55 The Land-Breezes brought a poysonous Smell on board Ship. 1783 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 9 A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset. 1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. xlix. 208 The strong land-breeze out of the Gulf of Corinth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmasland-breeze b. Extended to include the counter-current of air that blows from the land by night; hence sea-breeze and land-breeze. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land > at night breeze1697 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 400 From Land a gentle Breeze arose by Night. 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Breez, a fresh gale of wind blowing from the sea or land alternately for some certain hours of the day or night only sensible near the coast. 1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 9 A land-breeze shook the shrouds. 1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 31 The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's massy fold. < n.1667 as lemmas |
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