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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪndflɔː/

名詞

windflaw (複数形 windflaws)

1. A sudden, strong current of wind; flaw.
   • 1912, Jack London, A Son Of The Sun, ch. 8:

     The front of the wind on the water was a solid, sharply defined strip of dark-coloured, wind-vexed water. In advance of this strip, like skirmishers, were flashes of windflaws.

   • 2008, Willie Nelson, and Mike Blakely, A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel, →ISBN, (Google preview):

     The smoke seemed to cover them all halfway to the house, but then it twisted away on a windflaw and lifted like a stage curtain.