siroc

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English

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Etymology

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From archaic French siroc.

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Noun

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siroc (plural sirocs)

  1. Synonym of sirocco
    • 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: [] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, [], by Biggs and Cottle, [], →OCLC:
      like the blasting Siroc of the sands,
      The ruin of the royal voice
      Found its way everywhere
    • 1809, Lord Byron, Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm:
      Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc,
      When last I press'd thy lip;
      And long ere now, with foaming shock
      Impell'd thy gallant ship.
    • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. [], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: [] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
      I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
    • 1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Test:
      These the siroc could not melt,
      Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
      And the meaning was more white
      Than July's meridian light.

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