Synonyms for khamsin
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kam-seen, kam-sin |
| Phonetic Transcription : kæmˈsin, ˈkæm sɪn |
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Définition of khamsin
- As in dust storm : noun dust- or sand-carrying windstorm
- The khamsin blows for a certain number of days in April, May, and the first half of June.
- Extract from : « The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt » by James W. Barrett
- But if buildings are shut up early in the morning and opened at night, even the khamsin may be made tolerable.
- Extract from : « The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt » by James W. Barrett
- The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
- Extract from : « The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I » by Herbert Brayley Collett
- Alexandria on our return was dimmed in the heat and choking in the sand clouds of a khamsin.
- Extract from : « The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 » by F.L. Morrison
- It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.
- Extract from : « The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 » by F.L. Morrison
- Khamsin, kam′sin, n. a hot south-west wind in Egypt, blowing for about fifty days from about the middle of March.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
- Khamsin (fifty), a hot sand wind which blows in Egypt from the desert for fifty days, chiefly before and after the month of May.
- Extract from : « The Nuttall Encyclopaedia » by Edited by Rev. James Wood
- O effendi, shall the camel-driver laugh when the camels are lost in the khamsin and the water-bottle is empty?
- Extract from : « The Weavers, Complete » by Gilbert Parker
- During the night a Khamsin wind began to blow, though lightly as was to be expected at this season of the year.
- Extract from : « The Ivory Child » by H. Rider Haggard
- Their delay had been caused in part by the Khamsin wind, and in part by their sluggish movements.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 » by Various
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