different between noreaster vs northwind

noreaster

English

Noun

noreaster (plural noreasters)

  1. Alternative spelling of nor'easter

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northwind

English

Noun

northwind

  1. Alternative form of north wind
    • 1846, Connop Thirlwall, The History of Greece, Volume II, New Edition, Longman et al. (publishers), page 264:
      [] promising to surrender them whenever they should be summoned by a fleet that should sail to them [the Pelasgians of Lemnos] from Attica in one day with a northwind.
    • 1882, Charles Lever, The Daltons; or, Three Roads in Life, Chapter XXXI, page 145:
      [...] and notwithstanding the cutting blasts of a northwind, and the sharp driftings of the half-frozen snow, [...]
    • 1968, Kenneth Burke, Counter-Statement, ?ISBN, page 39:
      To illustrate more fully, if an author managed over a certain number of his pages to produce a feeling of sultriness, or oppression, in the reader, this would unconsciously awaken in the reader the desire for a cold, fresh northwind — and thus some aspect of a northwind would be effective if called forth by some aspect of sultriness.

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