terraln.
/tɛˈral/ The land-breeze off the coast of Spain or South America.
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1863 H. 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.
1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 299 Obliged to take to our sweeps to get across the calm belt between the terral and the trade-wind.
1928 Bryologist XXXI. 125 The weather was very cold. We had been feeling the intense icy blasts of the Terral wind from the North [of Spain].
1953 W. 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.
1961 L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 448/2 Terral, the land breeze along the coasts of western Peru.
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