| 单词 | black south-easter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack south-easter black south-easter n. South African (esp. in the Western Cape) a violent south-easterly wind. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > south-east > specifically in South Africa black south-easter1836 Cape doctor1861 1836 T. Maclear Observ. Halley's Comet 6 Feb. in Mem. Royal Astron. Soc. (1838) 10 126 Wind violent—a ‘black south-easter’. 1870 Cape Monthly Mag. Dec. 357 Then we are sometimes blessed with a black south-easter... The mountain is then quite buried in cloud, the air is laden with moisture, the winds run howling hither and thither,..the rain descends. 1950 L. G. Green At Daybreak for Isles vi. 74 In the middle of January 1844 a ‘black south-easter’, the wind most feared in summer on this coast, forced most of the fleet to run for open sea. 2010 Cape Times (Nexis) 22 Feb. (Sport section) 22 The runners battled in stormy conditions as they were buffeted by a black south-easter on the switchback course around the southern tip of the Peninsula. < as lemmas |
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