| 单词 | red wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred wind red wind n. [compare French roux vent northerly or north-easterly wind which blasts the leaves of plants in spring (1622)] (a) a wind carrying grains of red sand along with it; (b) an easterly wind having a drying or blasting effect on the leaves of trees and causing them to shrivel (now rare). [Quot. a1400 has alternatively been interpreted as showing rad adj.1] ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry red winda1400 hot wind1600 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > hot or warm and dry > from African and Asiatic deserts harmattan1671 khamsin1685 samiel1687 simoom1763 red wind1857 loo1888 haboob1897 karaburan1903 sharav1968 a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 4 Þe racke myd a rede wynde roos on þe myddel & sone sette on þe se out of þe souþ syde. 1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Carbunculatio, a red wynde, whiche burneth trees. 1670 New Additions to Art Husbandry 45 in J. Blagrave Epitome Art of Husbandry (new ed.) There is an Easterly or North-Easterly red Wind, which was ever accounted a bliting wind. 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. 23 The North-East Winds, which are red Winds that blast the Leaves upon your Peach-Trees. 1857 Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 4 114 There is no sojourner in the Mediterranean,..who has not seen the red wind... It blows from the deserts of Africa, and derives its name from the particles of red sand with which it is charged. 1935 Times 30 Sept. 10/3 The Irish peasant speaks of the east wind as the ‘red wind’ owing to its harsh and drying up effect on his crops. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) i. 5 He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west. < as lemmas |
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