bora (redirected from Bora (disambiguation))

bora¹

a violent cold north wind blowing from the mountains to the E coast of the Adriatic, usually in winter

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bora²

an initiation ceremony of native Australians, introducing youths to manhood

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bora [′bȯr·ə]

(meteorology)

A fall wind whose source is so cold that when the air reaches the lowlands or coast the dynamic warming is insufficient to raise the air temperature to the normal level for the region; hence it appears as a cold wind.