单词 | sou-wester |
释义 | sou'-western. 1. = southwester n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > winds from specific compass points > south-west south-west1440 Afer1667 Libs1742 southwester1778 sou'-wester1838 southwesterly1875 1838 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 157 Frost ended in a set in of dirty sou'-wester, with a constant batch of wind and rain. 1894 W. E. Norris St. Ann's I. 180 One of those steady, relentless sou'-westers, accompanied by sheets of rain. 2. a. A large waterproof hat or cap, originally made of oilskin, with a broad rim, worn esp. at sea to protect the head and neck during rough or wet weather. Cf. southwester n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > waterproof rain hat1755 southwester1828 sou'-wester1837 north-easter1838 nor'-wester1853 1837 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 130 I shipped my sou-wester and went fishing. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxxii. 333 He also provided Rob with a species of hat,..which is usually termed a sou'wester. 1870 W. Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xxviii. 239 [The] men have their shiny-yellow sou'-westers pulled down over their brows. b. attributive. = sense 2a. ΚΠ 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. ii. 41 When the captain comes down again, in a sou'-wester hat tied under his chin, and a pilot-coat. 1860 C. A. Collins Eye-witness 120 It is a neighbourhood of canvas trousers and sou'-wester hats. 3. Nautical. (See quot. 1848, and cf. nor'-wester n. 4.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > rum > [noun] > rum and water rum and water?1750 seven-water grog1834 sou'-wester1848 mainsheet1873 bubbly1902 1848 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes Comedies 40 (note) Half-and-half was equivalent to what seamen call a sou'-wester, that is to say, half rum and the rest rum-and-water. Derivatives sou'-ˈwestered adj. wearing a sou'-wester. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a hat > types of flat-headed1667 straw-hattedc1730 beavered1742 cocked-hatted1821 slouch-hatted1826 high-hatted1858 plug-hatted1869 sun-helmeted1886 pot-hatted1888 sou'-westered1891 cowboy-hatted1896 sombreroed1899 top hat1902 picture-hatted1906 bowler-hatted1909 sailor-hatted1909 tile-hatted1924 Stetsoned1935 trilbied1966 trilby-hatted1975 1891 Harper's Mag. July 179/1 That unseasonably sou'-westered man at the wheel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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