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名詞

pampero (plural pamperos)

1. A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
   • 1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata, page 49:

     All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called […]