Cacimbo

/kəˈsɪmboʊ/ noun

A cool, misty wind with low clouds that occurs along the coast of Angola and Namibia during the dry season.

From Portuguese cacimbo, derived from Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Portuguese colonizers adopted the local term for this distinctive seasonal wind pattern.

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