| 单词 | cape doctor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCape doctor Cape doctor n. a strong south-east wind in South Africa (cf. doctor n. 7b). 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 1861 L. Duff-Gordon Let. 19 Oct. (1875) 213 It portends a ‘south-easter’... This wind..is the Cape doctor, and keeps away cholera, fevers [etc.]. 1881 F. R. Statham Blacks, Boers, & Brit. 54 For it is here that the celebrated south-easter—the ‘Cape Doctor’, as Anglo-Indians were in olden days wont to call it—blows its strongest. And the ‘Cape Doctor's’ strongest is no joke. 1890 A. Martin Home Life Ostrich Farm 15 That rough but benevolent south-east wind, which, owing to its kindly property of sweeping away the germs of disease, is called ‘the Cape doctor’. 1966 Listener 18 Aug. 237/2 The Cape south-easter was blowing—the wind they call the Cape doctor because it blows the rubbish from the streets. < as lemmas |
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