[Sp.:—L. sōlānus, f. sōl sun.] In Spain, a hot south-easterly wind.
[1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. ii. 120. The Solanus or Easterne winde is commonly hote and troublesome in Spaine.]
1792. J. Townsend, Journ. thro. Spain, II. 360. Whenever they have the Solano wind, that is, whenever the wind blows from Africa, they become liable to pleurisies.
1834. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), XXII. 343. The heat in Summer is very great, and, when the Solano or South wind blows, nearly insupportable.
1881. Standard, 14 July, 5/3. ‘Ask no grace in the Solano.’ So runs the Spanish proverb.
