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West wind

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is the west wind and the personification of spring and early summer; his winds are usually calm and lukewarm and very gentle. His ancient Roman equivalent is Favonius.
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was the personification of the west wind and the bringer of light spring and early summer breezes; his Roman equivalent was
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In European tradition, it has usually been considered the mildest and most favorable of the directional winds.
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wrote of the "swete breth" of Zephyrus, and a soft, gentle breeze may be referred to as a zephyr, as in
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is the god of the west wind. He was depicted as a man with the head of a serpent.
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tradition, the "west wind" is brought by the Panther, ugly and fierce.
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University of Calcutta: Department of Letters (1921).
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Ponente
West wind (disambiguation)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines § Official functions

Tramontane
Gregale
Levante
Sirocco
Ostro
Libeccio
Ponente
Mistral
wind
west
Greek mythology
Zephyrus
Favonius
Egyptian mythology
Ḥutchai
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
Cymbeline
Iroquois
Jīvas
ekendriya
Jainism
East wind
Fremantle Doctor
North wind
South wind

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