gregale

[ grey-gah-ley ]

noun

1. a strong northeast wind that blows in the central and western Mediterranean area.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gregale¹

1795–1805; < Italian grecale, gregale < Late Latin Grecālis. See Greek, -al ¹

Example Sentences

The north-east biting wind is the Gregale, while the south-east, often a violent wind, is the dreaded Sirocco, bad either on sea or shore.

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I can allow my self to be Animal sociale, appliable to my company, but not gregale, to herd my self in every troup.

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At Nice and Mentone, in fact all along that favorite coast bordering the Mediterranean, the mistral is the bane of the health-seeker; while in this group the grégalé is the twin evil.

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The temperature drops rapidly when the fierce wind known as the grégalé prevails, blowing from the northeast across the Ionian Sea directly into the Grand Harbor of Valletta.

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It was the grégalé, the northeasterly blast so much dreaded by the fishermen, and which in the olden time, before navigation was better understood, created such havoc in this midland sea.

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