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/ɪˈtiːzɪən/ · adjective
Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean..
Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator […], or from those great dropping perpetual showers […]?
[…] Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town.
[...] I have in England for ſome years paſt, kept by me an exact table, or Ephemeris both of the Vernall, and Summer Eteſians; but found the VVinds no leſſe Variable in thoſe Months, then at other Seaſons.
Use etesian when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Etesian means Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean..
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Is it from those etesian winds, or melting of snow in the mountains under the Equator […], or from those great dropping perpetual showers […]?
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