windflaw

plural windflaws

1. A sudden, strong current of wind; flaw.

   The smoke seemed to cover them all halfway to the house, but then it twisted away on a windflaw and lifted like a stage curtain.

   2008, Willie Nelson,, Mike Blakely, A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel, →ISBN

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   The front of the wind on the water was a solid, sharply defined strip of dark-coloured, wind-vexed water. In advance of this strip, like skirmishers, were flashes of windflaws.

   1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in A Son Of The Sun

   Synonyms: gust