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Definition of Harmattans
1. harmattan [n] - See also: harmattan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harmattans
Literary usage of Harmattans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1832)
"About the end of December, the singular dry parching winds usually blowing from
the east or north-east, denominated harmattans, begin to prevail, ..."
2. An Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time by George Sale, George Psalmanazar, Archibald Bower, George Shelvocke, John Campbell, John Swinton (1760)
"... harmattans lefs pernicious to the brute animals ; and the negroes, ... up as
foon as the harmattans ..."
3. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... the harmattans, land and sea breezes and hurricanes, the Samiel or Poison
Wind, and the Etesian. The Cyclones, or rotary hurricanes, ot: fer a most ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(46) Yet in the public disorders, these barbarians, whom antiquity, (38) There
was a settlement of the harmattans in the neighbourhood of Trêves which seems ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"Nor are the islands, equally with the coast, exposed to the influence of the
harmattans. These sirocco winds, that are felt at times on all the northern ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1804)
"... the mercury invariably rising iu the forenoon and falling in the afternoon..
harmattans or parching winds very seldom occur at this settlement. ..."
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