| 单词 | chocolate north |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschocolate north b. attributive, designating a north-westerly or northerly wind favourable to ships transporting cocoa beans from Mexico to the Caribbean and northern South America, as chocolate north, chocolate gale, chocolate wind. Now historical. [With chocolate north compare Spanish norte chocolatero (1714 in a French context, or earlier).] ΚΠ 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 39 The next day having a brisk N.W. Wind, which was a kind of a Chocolatta North, we arrived at Port-Royal. 1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. vi. 62 The Wind continues at N.W. blowing only a brisk Gale, which the Jamaica Seamen call a Chocolate North. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Chocolate-gale, a brisk N.W. wind of the West Indies and Spanish main. 1998 M. Archibald Sixpence for Wind 45 Other winds included..the northwesterly Chocolate Gale of the Caribbean. 2013 D. R. Prinz On Chocolate Trail ii. 22 These shipments of cacao ultimately achieved such renown that they voyaged with what was called the ‘chocolate wind’, or viento chocolatero, the name given in Mexico for the favorable northern breezes... It became clear that Sephardi Jews were probably riding those chocolate winds as well. < as lemmas |
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