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wind⋅flaw

  [wind-flaw]
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–noun
flaw 2 (def. 1).
Origin:
1920–25; wind 1 + flaw 2

flaw

2  [flaw]
–noun
1. Also called windflaw. a sudden, usually brief windstorm or gust of wind.
2. a short spell of rough weather.
3. Obsolete. a burst of feeling, fury, etc.
Origin:
1475–85; < ON flaga attack, squall

Related forms:
flawy, adjective
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wind·flaw   (wĭnd'flô')   
n.  A sudden gust or blast of wind.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

flaw 
c.1325, "snowflake, spark of fire," from O.N. flaga "stone slab, flake" (see flagstone); sense of "defect, fault" first recorded 1586, first of character, later (1604) of material things; probably via notion of a "fragment" broken off.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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