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Definition of Haboob
1. Noun. A violent sandstorm or dust storm in the deserts of Arabia, North Africa, India, or North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haboob
1. a violent sandstorm [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haboob
Literary usage of Haboob
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"... el-haboob, the chief of the most important and the most turbulent family of the
... Beyt-haboob, who were not long since the rulers of the town, ..."
2. A narrative of captivity in Abyssinia: With Some Account of the Late Emperor by Henry Jules Blanc (1868)
"From Ain to haboob J the country is well wooded, and watered by innumerable small
streams. The soil is formed of the detritus of the volcanic rocks, ..."
3. Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863). by William Gifford Palgrave (1865)
"The family haboob, already over-confident in the stone walls of their old citadel,
were readily brought by this apparently dilatory conduct of ..."
4. The Story of the Captives: A Narrative of the Events of Mr. Rassam's Mission by Henry Blanc (1868)
"From Ain to haboob J the country is well wooded, and watered by innumerable small
streams. The soil is formed of the detritus of the volcanic rocks, ..."
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