burle en · NOUN
Etymology
Borrowed from French burle.
Meanings
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(rare) A cold north wind that blows in the winter in south-central France.
[…] wind of good weather, it can chase away clouds but also intensify drought and heat. On the high plateau, the mistral can unleash in winter the burle, a swirling, blinding snowstorm propelled almost horizontally.
2002, John M. Merriman, The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 13:[…] wind cutting through your clothes : the burle, a wind so harsh it had a name. That was Tanieux to him: a winter town, a cold, stone village huddled on its hillside, Grandpa's kitchen its one welcoming place.
2011 April 15, Heather Munn, Lydia Munn, How Huge the Night, Kregel Publications, →ISBN, page 8: