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A wind that acts notably on the nervous system. It is prevalent in those valleys of Savoy that open to the north.
“The Bise blew cold.”
Rogers: Italy, part 1. div. ii. stanza 4.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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