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Definition of Gregale
1. a wind [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gregale
Literary usage of Gregale
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"Tramontana. — On the Italian side of the Adriatic Sea, the same wind which blows
from the mountain along the shore is called the "Tramontana." gregale. ..."
2. Meteorology, Weather, and Methods of Forecasting, Description of by Thomas Russell (1895)
"Tramontana.—On the Italian side of the Adriatic Sea, the same wind which blows
from the mountain along the shore is called the " Tramontana." gregale. ..."
3. Life, Letters and Diaries of Lieut.-General Sir Gerald Graham ...: With by Robert Hamilton Vetch (1901)
"N.-easter continuing, threatening to turn into a regular gregale. ... By this
time blowing a regular gregale. Passed between Cape Malia and Cerigo just ..."
4. Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon by Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe Strangford, Emily Anne (Beaufort) Smythe Strangford (1878)
"Thus, we may add, the Italian gregale for a north-eastern winter gale, ...
This very gregale, much dreaded at Malta, has there decided easting in it, ..."
5. Medical climatology, or a topographical and meteorological description of by Robert Edmund Scoresby Jackson (1862)
"Gales of wind from the northeast—the "gregale," as it is called by the natives—are
frequently a cause of considerable damage in the harbour and town of ..."
6. A guide to the Maltese islands by George Nelson Godwin (1880)
"The gregale or NE wind sometimes blows with hurricane force. ... Fortunately the
gregale is not a frequent visitor, and is not in the habit of prolonging ..."
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