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.
Cacimbo is a perfect example of how regional climate phenomena get captured in words—it's a specific wind pattern so important to local life that it earned its own name that colonizers adopted into Portuguese.
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