Noun

1. A hot wind in Egypt which blows from the desert, bringing with it sand.

Quotations

• 1978: ...and whatever the Greeks have done to Hellenize this town it does smell of desert, and it does have its Khamsins — its desert winds — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.173)