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stormwind en · NOUN

Etymology

From storm + wind.

Meanings

1. A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm.
   • He slashed right and left as the fallen banner was ripped apart, the thousand ragged pieces swirling away like crimson leaves in a stormwind. 1998, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, New York: Bantam, published 1999, page 447:
   • That spell of sea-safety which they set much store by in the Northern Archipelago never saved a man from storm-wind or storm-wave, but, cast by one who knows the local seas and the ways of a boat and the skills of the sailor, it weaves some daily safety about the fisherman. 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin, chapter 8, in A Wizard of Earthsea, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012, page 155:
   • Also know, that it is as possible to see the winde as the aire, their substances being too tenuous to be perceived; unlesse in a storm-winde, whose matter is an exhalation so thick that it darkens the aire: 1635, John Swan, Speculum Mundi, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 5, Section 2, p. 177:
   • 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, New York: Samuel Colman, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 6, p. 146, […] the stormwind smites the wall of the mountain cliff […]
   • 1872, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, London: Macmillan, prefatory poem, Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind’s moody madness— Within, the firelight’s ruddy glow, And childhood’s nest of gladness.

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