siroc

From archaic French siroc.

siroc (plural sirocs)

1. Sirocco.
   • 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

     I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.

   • 1809, Lord Byron, "Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm":

     Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc,

     When last I press'd thy lip;

     And long ere now, with foaming shock

     Impell'd thy gallant ship.

   • 1876, Emerson, "The Test":

     These the siroc could not melt,

     Fire their fiercer flaming felt,

     And the meaning was more white

     Than July's meridian light.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Robert Southey to this entry?)

• Corsi, coirs