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- noun Alternative form of
trade wind .
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Examples
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The crests of the walls were saw-toothed, volcanic peaks, capped. and halo'd with captive trade-wind clouds.
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Far up the mountains, that towered many thousands of feet into the trade-wind clouds, arose many signal smokes that advertised the coming of the vessel.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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As the Ariel began to move through the water and heeled to the filling of her canvas by the brisk trade-wind, the Commissioner and Captain
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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So in this trade-wind weather I see a great deal of Miss West.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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A gentle breath of the dying trade-wind fanned them, and they rose and fell monotonously on the smooth swells of a perfect summer sea.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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The crisp off-shore trade-wind caught the beard's fringes and blew them backward and upward yards and yards into the air.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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Elsinore, by the wind, under an Alpine range of canvas, every sail set from skysails to try-sails and spanker, slipping across the surface of a mild trade-wind sea, and no hand at the wheel to guide her.
CHAPTER XVIII 2010
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The fading trade-wind wisps sighed and rustled between longer intervals of quiescence.
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It did not shower up Nuuanu, and every overhead star was out in a clear trade-wind sky.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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The usual trade-wind clouds were absent, and the sun, still low in its climb to meridian, turned all the sky to heated brass.
A SON OF THE SUN 2010
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