scirocco
scirocco is the alternative spelling of sirocco.
Meaning of sirocco
Noun
sirocco (plural siroccos)
- A hot and often strong southerly to southeasterly wind on the Mediterranean that originates in the Sahara and adjacent North African regions.
- But come, the board is spread; our silver lamp / Is trimm’d, and heeds not the sirocco’s damp.1814, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Corsair, i:14
- Synonyms:
- ghibli
- A draft of hot air from an artificial source of heat.
- In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle.2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, →ISBN, page 113
Forms of scirocco
| plural | sciroccos |
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Words that rhyme with scirocco
Questions about scirocco
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- Scirocco is the alternative spelling of sirocco.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: scirocco (page history and authors); sirocco (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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