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单词 summer west
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summer west
summer west n. Obsolete the direction in which the sun sets in the summer; (in the northern hemisphere) north-west; cf. summer east n.
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1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. v. 135 They do call lower windes those..which blowe from the South to the summer-weast [Sp. el Poniente Estival].
1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. i. vii. 32 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) It is at this day a great City, built like an Amphitheater, upon the descent of a Hill that looks toward the Summer-West.
1721 J. Collier tr. J. Bernard App. Morery's Dict. at Adriatick 'Tis this Part of the Mediterranean which stretches from the Summer West, to the Winter East, between Illyricum and Italy.
1812 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle Metaphysics (new ed.) 599 Of the west winds..that is called argestes indeed which blows from the summer west, and which some persons denominate olympias, but others iapyx.
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