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A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
Examples of mistral in a Sentence
You can also get supplies and toys for your Mistral to play with.
The mistral of the Riviera is entirely absent from Algiers, but in summer the city occasionally suffers from the sirocco or desert wind.
It is sheltered from the north-east and east winds, but is exposed to the cold north-west wind or mistral.
The prevailing winds, mild and humid, are west winds from the Atlantic; continental climatic influence makes itself felt in the east wind, which is frequent in winter and in the east of France, while the mistral, a violent wind from the north-west, is characteristic of the Mediterranean region.
Cold dry winds, often of great violence, occur in the Rhone valley (the Mistral), in Istria, and Dalmatia (the Bora), and in the western Caucasus.
Together with Frederic Mistral, he was awarded the Nobel prize in 1904.
Avignon is subject to violent winds, of which the most disastrous is the mistral.
Nick Dempsey has earned Britain's fourth Sailing medal, with bronze in the men's mistral.
In order to support that flexibility, the user has to write an import program in the integrated modeling language mistral.
She recently finished eighth overall in the Mistral Oceanic Championships in Sydney Harbor.
Mistral Adoption Centre is a site where, assuming you meet the right requirements, you can adopt a beautiful baby Mistral, a dragon-like creature that lives among the Fae.
The Bishen Realm has a lot of information among its pages and is much like the Mistral Adoption Centre.
The gentle scent of lavender is the star of the show, but the luxurious packaging of this Mistral Soaps Lavender Bath Salt Tin is destined to be a minor celebrity in its own right.