southwester

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From southwest + -er.

The boys were talking of going to the Home across the bay next day in a boat, but a wind came up which finally developed into a stout southwester, and Monday was a most disagreeable day. — A Woman who went to Alaska, May Kellogg Sullivan
Ay, and she danced at the ducal schloss;--she mounted his coach like a witch of the Alps up crags;--she was beside him pelting to the vale under a leaden Southwester;--she sat solitary by the fireside in the room of the inn. — The Amazing Marriage — Complete, George Meredith
### It is usual, in voyages round the Cape from the Pacific, to keep to the eastward of the Falkland Islands; but, as there had now set in a strong, steady, and clear southwester, with every prospect of its lasting, and we had had enough of high latitudes, the captain determined to stand immediately to the northward, running inside the Falkland Islands. — McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader, William Holmes McGuffey

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