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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[Sp., fr.

pampa

a plain.]

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.

Sir W. Parish.

See also: pampero

Pampero ‎(plural Pamperos)

See also: Pampero

pampero ‎(plural pamperos)

A violent wind from the west or southwest, which sweeps over the pampas of South America and the adjacent seas, often doing great damage.
- 1838, Woodbine Parish, Buenos Ayres, and the provinces of the Rio de La Plata (page 49)
  All these miseries, however, are not without their remedy; when the sufferings of the natives are at their climax, the mercury will give the sure indication of a coming pampero, as the south-wester is called […]