NOUN
- a strong wind from the southwest
- waterproof hat with wide slanting brim longer in back than in front
How To Use sou'wester In A Sentence
- 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.
- Like her he was dressed in galoshes, rainclothes and sou'wester.
- I don't mind donning my sou'westers for my daily medicine walk but cycling in the rain doesn't appeal at all.
- 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
- Clad in sou'wester and thigh boots, his rugged, bearded features are every inch the Victorian lifeboatman.
- So it's sou'westers and wellies for the morning, and, hopefully, pretty summer dresses and wide-brimmed hats later on in the afternoon.
- So it's sou'westers and wellies for the morning, and, hopefully, pretty summer dresses and wide-brimmed hats later on in the afternoon.
- I don't mind donning my sou'wester for my daily medicine walk but cycling in the rain doesn't appeal at all.
- Research showed that the prevailing westerly would blow the pollution out from the city to the Hauraki Gulf and the sea breeze would bring it back again, so for one to three days it would build up until a sou'wester blew it away again.
- I thought that when I was farming and going out in the rain I wore a sou'wester with a brim so that the rain would not run down my neck.
