siroc

plural sirocs

1. Synonym of sirocco.

   like the blasting Siroc of the sands, The ruin of the royal voice Found its way everywhere

   1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC

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   Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc, When last I press'd thy lip; And long ere now, with foaming shock Impell'd thy gallant ship.

   1809, Lord Byron, Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm

   I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.

   1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC

   These the siroc could not melt, Fire their fiercer flaming felt, And the meaning was more white Than July's meridian light.

   1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Test

   Synonyms: sirocco