sirocco
- n a windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand
- The Flagship Ethiopia, a Swedish-owned Bristol freight plane, refueled at Catania, in Sicily, and took off for Rome in a sirocco storm.
- The Jerusalem rats may therefore help to explain why New Yorkers are fratchy in July and why a man who commits murder in Naples when the sirocco is blowing can hope for lenient .
- During his 35 years in the Senate, he himself could summon up as hot a sirocco as any that scorched the Ship of State.