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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
foehn

▶noun variant spelling of föhn.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
föhn /fəːn/ (also foehn)

▶noun a hot southerly wind on the northern slopes of the Alps.

– origin C19: from Ger., based on L. (ventus) Favonius ‘mild west wind’, Favonius being the Roman personification of the west or west wind.

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