Auster
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Noun
Auster
- the South Wind, especially when personified
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- 1989: ‘My homeland too,’ Aetius grinned. ‘I was born under the Auster.’ (Burgess, The Devil's Mode)
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Etymology
Dutch oester, ostre, Anglo-Norman oistre, oistre, uistre (modern French huître), from ostrea, from (related to ‘bone’, ‘shell’).