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spindrift
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈspɪn.drɪft/ us /ˈspɪn.drɪft/
small drops of water or snow, or small pieces of sand, carried in the wind:
You can see snow whipping off the far mountain peaks as spindrift.
At the pier the wind was gusting to sixty or seventy knots with spindrift flying everywhere.
Nightfall blanked out the mist and spindrift.
They were swept up in a huge maelstrom of surf and spindrift.
He was descending the mountain but ice and spindrift made it impossible for him to see where he was going.
High up, by pinnacles towards the Italian border, spindrift blows off exposed snow.
He was a simple sailor who sailed the sea and let the world float by him like spindrift.
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