giblin.
/ˈɡɪbli/ A local name in Libya for the sirocco.
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1821 G. F. Lyon Narr. Trav. N. Afr. 94 Nothing can be more overpowering than the south wind, El Gibli.
1848 J. Richardson Trav. Sahara I. 17 A ghiblee day. The wind from The Desert is coming with a vengeance.
1853 J. Richardson Narr. Mission Central Afr. 61 Under the enervating influence of the gheblee, or hot wind.
1857 H. Barth Trav. & Discov. N. & Central Afr. 652 A heavy gibleh.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 481/2 It is very wind-swept and parched in summer by the terrible south wind (qibli or ‘sirocco’).
1927 W. G. Kendrew Climates of Continents (ed. 2) xxxi. 240 The Sirocco..has naturally received local names, in south-east Spain levèche, in Algeria sirocco, in Tunis chili, in Tripoli gibli, [etc.].
1966 Punch 29 June 965/3 Her steadfastly sunny outlook even in the middle of a ghibli (khamsin or sirocco, by any other name as blinding and painful).
1968 Encycl. Brit. VII. 792/1 The khamsin of Egypt (or gibleh of Libya).
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