Meanings
nounsouth-wester (plural south-westers)
plural south-westers
- archaicA kind of cap to protect against the rain
We spring out of our berths, clap on a monkey-jacket and south-wester, and tumble up the ladder.
1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., “CHAPTER XXXV”, in Two Years before the Mast. […] (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], →OCLC
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