a hot dry wind in South Africa blowing from the plateau down to the coast
berg wind in American English
(wɪnd)
noun
a foehn blowing coastward from the interior plateau of South Africa
Word origin
[1900–05]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clone, decompression, elder statesman, hookup, internship