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sou'wester

NOUN
  1. a strong wind from the southwest
  2. waterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front

How To Use sou'wester In A Sentence

  • Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
  • One of the things I most liked having was a mackintosh, sou'wester and gum boots.
  • The blouse is open at the chest, and is lifted to the waist by his big, brown hands, which are tucked in his trouser pockets, and his head is covered by the kind of hat that sailors call a sou'wester. St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878
  • Thinking it would offer better protection from fallout than Sam's sou'wester hat, Ian tried it on.
  • He took his entire kit with him - his standard-issue uniform, an extra jumper, a waterproof cape and a sou'wester hat.
  • Even if what you see is an unwelcome glimpse of grey, if you're a professional gardener, you simply have no choice but to get out of bed and get your sou'wester on.
  • Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty _robe de chambre_ of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief. Adrift in the Ice-Fields
  • He struggled to hear anything but there was only the wind at the flaps of his sou'wester and the waves breaking some eighty feet below. THE MAIN CAGES
  • He struggled to hear anything but there was only the wind at the flaps of his sou'wester and the waves breaking some eighty feet below. THE MAIN CAGES
  • I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
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