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maestral

maestral is the obsolete form of mistral.

Meaning of mistral

Noun

mistral (plural mistrals)

  1. A strong cold north-west wind in southern France and the Mediterranean.
    • I saw him, the sea gray under the mistral and foam-flecked, watching the vanishing coast of France, which he was destined never to see again; and I thought there was something gallant in his bearing and dauntless in his soul.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 48”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

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Forms of maestral

pluralmaestrals

Questions about maestral

What is maestral the obsolete form of?
Maestral is the obsolete form of mistral.

Words near maestral in the dictionary

  1. Maestases
  2. Maesteg
  3. maestoso
  4. maestosos
  5. maestra
  6. maestral
  7. maestrals
  8. maestras
  9. Maestre
  10. Maestres
  11. maestri

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maestral (page history and authors); mistral (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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