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- noun A type of dry north
wind which blows in the easternMediterranean .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hardly a moving thing was in sight but the flying storks and the waving green patches of rushes and of grain bowed by the strong imbat, which wafted cloud-shadows over the rather melancholy landscape.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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The _imbat_, or sea-breeze, usually blows every day and all day long, so that, however close one may lie to the town, the odors from its filthy, narrow streets are all blown the other way -- sufficiently rich, one would think, to fertilize any soil over which they may be wafted.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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The view of the city and its environs from an anchorage in the bay, with the sun shining upon its blue waters dancing and crisping under the brisk imbat; the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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