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US
/ˈmɪstɹəɫ/
]
[ UK /mˈɪstɹəl/ ]
[ UK /mˈɪstɹəl/ ]
NOUN
- a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
How To Use mistral In A Sentence
- France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral The 2001 CIA World Factbook
- The mistral of the southern Rhône is one of the more notorious examples of this.
- And now the northerlies rising fierce, equatorial, the madman's wind, the mistrals of prophecy, guiding me into the bay. The Reign of Istar
- Nick Dempsey has one race left in the Mistral windsurfers and is in fourth place, 12 points from the bronze medal.
- Except when I was there the mistral - a heavy, gusty wind - blew five days running.
- Francemetropolitan France: generally cool winters and mild summers, but mild winters and hot summers along the Mediterranean; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral Climate
- Les-Saintes-Maries-de-La-Mer in the Camargue, watery delta of the Rhone, is more like the wild west than the south of France, with white horses and bulls among the tall reeds, flocks of flamingos, huge never-ending sandy beaches, frenetic gypsy music in the market, crazy Mistral wind and mosquitos making for a memorable time. Summer holidays: Top 10 places for over-fives
- Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 10: 37 PM moi aussi je me demande comment ce linge va resister au mistral! and: is that really prehistoric skull a droite sur la pile de tuile? Corvee - French Word-A-Day
- Geography -- note: largest West European nation; occasional strong, cold, dry, north-to-northwesterly wind known as mistral The 1999 CIA Factbook
- It may be said concerning the work of Landor, which is a poem in dramatic form rather than a play, that it offers scarcely any points of resemblance with Mistral's beyond the few essential facts in the lives of Andrea and Joanna. Frederic Mistral