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What is a simoom?

What is a simoom? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A hot, dry, suffocating, dust-laden wind of the desert, particularity of Arabia, Syria, and neighboring countries, generated by the extreme heat of the parched deserts or sandy plains.
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I dare not face it, any more than I would the blast of the simoom.
It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan.
It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom.
In Africa you have the upas, the fierce compound of simoom and tornado.
Her winds encompass the ruagh, the khamsin, the simoom, the leveche, the zephyr.
The simoom, sirocco, samiel, and kamsin seem to be modifications of the same wind from the desert.

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