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Saʹmiel Wind, or Simoomʹ

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A hot suffocating wind that blows occasionally in Africa and Arabia. (Arabic, samma, suffocatingly hot.)

“Burning and headlong as the Samiel wind.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Samanides
Samaria
Samaritan
Sambo
Samedi (French)
Samian
Samian Letter (The)
Samian Sage (The)
Samiasa
Samiel
Samiel Wind, or Simoom
Sammael
Samoor
Samosatian Philosopher
Sampford Ghost (The)
Sampi
Sampler
Sampson
Samson
Samson Carrasco
San Benito (The)