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thur-man-TEE-dot
noun
a device for circulating air in a room, usually a fan mounted in a window
1856Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & MeccahThe houses being unusually strong and well-built, might by some art of thermantidote be rendered cool enough in the hottest weather: they are now ovens.1888In the House of SuddhooI felt the hair lift at the back of my head, and my heart thump like a thermantidote paddle.1916King of the Khyber RiflesKing settled down on his side of the compartment, after a struggle with the thermantidote that refused to work. There was heat enough below the roof to have roasted meat, so that the physical atmosphere became as turgid as the mental after a little while.Labels: Rudyard Kipling, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Talbot Mundy
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