Definition of Etesean
E*te"sian (?), a. [L. etesiae,
pl., periodic winds, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; year: cf. F.
étésien.] Periodical; annual; -- applied to
winds which annually blow from the north over the Mediterranean, esp.
the eastern part, for an irregular period during July and
August.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean
*1997: 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. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
- a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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