Definitions
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- noun a warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps
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Examples
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Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose.
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It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board.
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F is for fohn, but not like when I call the ladies.
Mathematical Induction for Seven Year Olds Julianne 2008
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The warmest area is the east coast where dry fohn winds regularly bring summer temperatures of more than 20°C.
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The setting for Green for Danger was clearly defined on the cover of the first edition dustjacket (fohn Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1945).
Death of Jezebel Brand, Christianna, 1907-1988 1948
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Rudy sparkled as he described the life of a hunter, or spoke of the cunning of the chamois and their wonderful leaps; also of the powerful fohn and the rolling avalanche.
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(Comparison) Website Apple - iPhone The iPhone 4 (pronounced/aɪ. foʊn.fɔr/, EYE-fohn-fohr) is the fourth generation of iPhone, and successor to the iPhone 3GS.
WN.com - Articles related to Nokia says no to Google Android 2010
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Here´s the link: www. bidray.com The iPhone (pronounced EYE-fohn) is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc.
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Spasmodically are dolorous who sapindus cobalt and tragically are the double yearly librettist who beggarman no tuxedo for the fohn medical by heartsease primitive.
Rational Review 2009
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Contain, fome times taken in a metaphor - ical fenfe, fignifies receive, n fohn zi.
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