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Foehn - What does it mean?

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foehn

English

Alternative forms

* , fohn

Noun

(en noun)
  • A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
  • * 1971 , WW Kibler, translating Gian Fontana, ‘The Mayor of Valdei’, in Bezzola (ed.), The Curly-Horned Cow , Peter Owen 1971, p. 71:
    • The foehn and the sun must have awakened the spirits of spring way up in the heights.
  • (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

    • See also

    * chinook ----

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.