Also erron. -ecchio. [It., f. L. Lib-s: see LIBS.] The Italian name for the south-west wind.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 706. Eurus and Zephir with thir lateral noise, Sirocco and Libecchio.
1820. Shelley, Lett., Prose Wks. 1880, IV. 178. The Libecchio here howls like a chorus of fiends all day.
1821. Mrs. Shelley, in Dowden, Life Shelley (1887), II. 395. After a whole week of libeccio rain and wind.
1873. ‘Ouida,’ Pascarèl, II. 314. The libeccio was blowing keenly as we crossed the square of Fiesole.
