white squall

noun

white squall

noun

1

A squall (especially tropical) not accompanied by black clouds.

“So we ran until the 31st of January, when a white squall took us, and nearly proved fatal to all aboard.”1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 249:

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