Usually means: Warm, dry wind down mountains.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (foehn)

noun:  A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland.
noun:  (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.

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