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What is a sou'wester?

What is a sou'wester? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. alternative form of southwester (the wind; this is the usual spelling for the hat)
  2. a waterproof hat with a long brim at the back, covering the neck.
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Thinking it would offer better protection from fallout than Sam's sou'wester hat, Ian tried it on.
I don't mind donning my sou'wester for my daily medicine walk but cycling in the rain doesn't appeal at all.
I'd like to take shorts and t-shirts but have a feeling we may need galoshes and sou'wester.
Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
Clad in sou'wester and thigh boots, his rugged, bearded features are every inch the Victorian lifeboatman.
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.

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