Definition of "fohn" []

• A warm dry wind that blows down the northern slopes of the Alps (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Around the Wetterhorn hung a feathery cloud, like a woolbag, and a threatening cloud too, for as it sunk lower it increased in size, and concealed within was a "fohn," fearful in its violence should it break loose."
• "It was a "fohn," that violent storm-wind which rushes from the mountain to the valley beneath, and in its fury snaps asunder the trunks of large trees as if they were but slender reeds, and carries the wooden houses from one side of a river to the other as easily as we could move the pieces on a chess-board."
• "The warmest area is the east coast where dry fohn winds regularly bring summer temperatures of more than 20°C."