windflaw
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windflaw (plural windflaws)
- A sudden, strong current of wind; flaw.
- 1912, Jack London, chapter 8, in A Son Of The Sun:
- The front of the wind on the water was a solid, sharply defined strip of dark-coloured, wind-vexed water. In advance of this strip, like skirmishers, were flashes of windflaws.
- 2008, Willie Nelson,, Mike Blakely, A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel[1], →ISBN:
- The smoke seemed to cover them all halfway to the house, but then it twisted away on a windflaw and lifted like a stage curtain.
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Sudden strong wind
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- “windflaw”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.