A hot, dry, southerly wind, common in Egypt and the deserts of Africa; the simoom.
He says that the Kamsin does not blow at this season, and there is every reason to believe that it has not rained in this locality during the past three hundred years." "The Wheel O' Fortune", Louis Tracy
He says that the Kamsin does not blow at this season, and there is every reason to believe that it has not rained in this locality during the past three hundred years."
Adversity; bad luck; a mishap. ...