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sirocco

noun/sɪˈrɒkəʊ/

C1CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A hot, dust-laden wind blowing from the Sahara across the Mediterranean.

The sirocco arrived at noon, coating the whitewashed walls in fine red grit.

Similar: desert wind, hot wind

Origin: From Italian scirocco, from Arabic sharq 'east'.

Topic: wind in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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