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downdraught
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downdraft, Brit. downdraught
1. A downward current of air in a chimney or flue, often carrying smoke with it.
2. A downward current of air resulting from the passage of air across a window surface, which cools it and increases its density so that it moves downward.
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Parachute Men" in Mphahlele 2002: 270-271; my italics) Masekela was thus on a journey which would involve swirling currents, downdraughts and the occasional illusion of timelessness as he invented and reinvented himself at key moments of his life, "the starting point" Peters alludes to, which Levinson terms The Novice Phase (1978: 90).
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There were further downdraughts in 1931, but the final slaughter came a year later, when share prices plunged to depths visited half a century earlier.
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