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单词 gregale
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gregalen.

/ɡrɛˈɡalɛ/
Forms: Also grigale, grecale.
Etymology: Italian; apparently representing a late Latin *graecāle-m , < Latin Graecus Greek adj.
The north-east wind in the Mediterranean. Cf. Greco n. 1.
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1804 C. B. Brown tr. C. F. de Volney View Soil & Climate U.S.A. 135–6 In Egypt, where it is named grigale, I found it gloomy, chilly, and oppressive.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Grecale, a north-eastern breeze off the coast of Sicily, Greece lying N.E.
1883 Encycl. 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.
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