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单词 kona
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konan.

/ˈkəʊnə/
Etymology: Hawaiian; originally the name of the leeward areas of the Hawaiian Islands.
A stormy south-west wind in the Hawaiian Islands.
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1864 R. Anderson Hawaiian Islands i. 28 Occasionally a prolonged gale comes from the south, called a Souther, or ‘Kona’.
1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 23 In the stormy season—in the season of the terrible kona.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker Prol. 9 It was blowing a kona, hard.
1934 M. D. Frear Lowell & Abigail p. xiv But by night..how the Kona wind moaned and drove the rain up from the sea.
1967 J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss. Kona wind, a south wind in the Hawaiian Islands, generally onshore at most of the southern exposure beaches. Occasionally offshore or glassy on the north shore.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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