vendavel

English

Noun

vendavel (plural vendavels)

1. Alternative form of vendaval
   • 1925, Percy A. Hill, Romantic Episodes in Old Manila: Church and State in the Hands of a Merry Jester, Time, page 53:

     Once clear of Manila bay, the Nuestra Señora de Guia picked up the vendavels, or winds. Sailing up the western coast of Luzon, she rounded the rocky headland of Bojeador, sheeted home all her great sails and bowled away ...

   • 1934, Percy A. Hill, Philippine Short Stories:

     […] Daily the sun like a red target sank into horizons left behind them, the vendavel hung steady from the west ...

   • 1973, Soledad Masangkay Borromeo, El Cadiz Filipino: Colonial Cavite, 1571-1896, page 39:

     It is very capacious and well sheltered from the vendavels -- whether the southwest and the southeast. It has a good anchorage, with a clean and good bottom.

   • 2019, Dominic M. Martin, Ventitre Viaggi: Twenty Three Journeys, iUniverse, →ISBN:

     As we rode I wondered if the wind should be called a vendavel from Gibraltar, or maybe a libeccio from Italy, or perhaps simply it would be better, ...

   • 2020, Nic Fields, Lepanto 1571: Christian and Muslim Fleets Battle for Control of the Mediterranean, Pen and Sword Maritime, →ISBN, page 175:

     And what monsters: the Vendavel, the Mistral, the Bora, the Meltemi, the Sirocco, the Levanter, often heralding their arrival with screeching like a banshee ...