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‖ gregale|greˈgale| Also grigale, grecale. [It.; app. repr. a late L. *græcāle-m, f. L. Græcus Greek a.] The north-east wind in the Mediterranean. Cf. Greco1.
1804C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View Soil U.S. 135–6 In Egypt, where it is named grigale, I found it gloomy, chilly, and oppressive. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Grecale, a north-eastern breeze off the coast of Sicily, Greece lying N.E. 1883Encycl. Brit. XV. 340 The ‘gregale’..is a strong north-east wind which occasionally blows in the winter months with great fury and force for two or three days together. |