Through-draught

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A draught or air current that blows across a space; cross breeze. UK

    "The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated."

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"The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated."

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