limbat
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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Definition of limbat
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete)A periodic cooling wind in Cyprus, blowing from the northwest.
“The heats increase as the summer advances, and would be altogether intolerable, if a cooling wind called limbat did not arise.”
“There are various other periodical winds: of these, however, that generally known by the name of limbat, which is common in the island of Cyprus, shall only be mentioned here.”
“The intensity of the summer heat is, however, modified after a time by a cooling wind which [Giovanni] Mariti calls limbat. […] This limbat wind is said to be the cause of those fevers which attack the inhabitants, to which Europeans are even more subject.”
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Etymology
From French limbat, a rebracketing of l’imbat, from Ottoman Turkish امبات (imbat, “sea breeze”). Doublet of imbat.
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