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- noun Plural form of
southwester .
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Examples
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Her father's house was nearly a mile from the sea, but the breath of it was always strong at the windows and doors in the early morning, and when there were heavy "southwesters" blowing in the winter, the wind brought the sharp sting of sand to her cheek, and the rain an odd taste of salt to her lips.
Colonel Starbottle's Client Bret Harte 1869
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING 2010
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And last of all, when we thought ourselves safe, we were wrecked by southwesters on the coast of Brittany, near to Cape
Westward Ho! 2007
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Well we went to sea with them and we went board just like the day before in our same uniforms, but to our absolute horror they were all in southwesters, sweaters and sea boots, which is the ordinary submarine rig for patrol.
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
Small-Boat Sailing 1917
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
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During the winter, which is the best cruising season, we have southeasters, southwesters, and occasional howling northers.
A Collection of Stories Jack London 1896
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At sundown the clothes were all taken down from the rigging-clean and dry-and stowed neatly away in our chests; and our southwesters, thick boots, guernsey frocks, and other accompaniments of bad weather, put out of the way, we hoped, for the rest of the voyage, as we expected to come upon the coast early in the autumn.
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative 1869
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