khamsin
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The khamsin is a baleful wind that flares out of the deserts, drying out the land and the people until the flesh fairly crackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara.
From Time Magazine Archive
These victims have few specific complaints beyond an extreme sensitivity to the rapid temperature changes caused by the khamsin.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.
From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.
