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单词 Albany doctor
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Albany doctor

noun Australian
(In south-west Western Australia) a cool onshore breeze at the end of a hot day: every day at 3 o’clock the Albany doctor arrives and the temperature drops...
  • Every day, it was visited by a wind called the Albany Doctor.
  • The frogs down in the pipe trench croaked and piped as though impatient for the arrival of the Albany doctor.
  • The Albany doctor was chasing him down lake Dumbleyung.

Origin

Early 20th century: from the Western Australian port town of Albany + the Australian sense of doctor 'cool onshore breeze'.

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