haars

Noun

haar (countable and uncountable, plural haars)

1. (Northern England, Scotland, especially) Thick, cold, wet fog along the northeastern coast of Northern England and Scotland.
   • The traffic noise used to be constant, at times as thick as the haar, the sea fog that sometimes rolls in here from the North Sea.2020, David Farrier, “The Insatiable Road”, in Footprints, 4th estate, →ISBN
2. (Scotland, especially) A wind, especially one from the east, which blows in this fog.
   • […] westerly haar, which wraps everything up in white wool, and blots out sea and sky, and chokes the depressed wayfarer-not to speak of the penetrating chill which even in June goes down into the marrow of your bones, and makes the[…]1873, Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), May. [A Novel.], page 73

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