Etymology

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a dry north wind which blows in the eastern Mediterranean.

   • 1997: Dixon, assailed without mercy by his Sensorium, almost in a swoon, finds himself, on Nights of Cloud, less and less able to forgo emerging at dusk, cloaked against the Etesian wind, and making directly for the prohibited parts of town. — Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon