English
Noun
#a hot wind in Egypt which blows from the desert bringing with it sand
Quotations
1978: ...and whatever the Greeks have done to Hellenize this town it does smell of desert, and it does have its Khamsins — its desert winds — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.173)

Alternative spellings
khamseen
kamsin
kamseen

vi:khamsin
zh:khamsin

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