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the look of someone who fought weather and called the result a hairstyle
means Exposed to or shaped by strong winds, often describing tousled hair, bare landscapes, or anything left ruffled and disheveled by gusts.
from A transparent compound of "wind" and "swept" — the past participle of "sweep." "Wind" traces back to Old English "wind," from a Germanic root tied to the idea of blowing, a cousin of Latin "ventus." "Sweep" comes from Old English "swapan," to move or rush along. So the word does exactly what it says: it pictures the wind as a broom dragged across hair, hills, and moors, leaving everything brushed in one direction whether it liked it or not.
- coined era
- Emerged in English around the 1660s
- moor mood
- Defines half of British Gothic landscape writing
- hair physics
- Salons charge to fake what wind does free
- erosion proof
- Trees grow lopsided where wind never quits
cape horn — southernmost tip of south america where atlantic and pacific meet with sustained winds exceeding 50 mph
wellington new zealand — capital city ranked among world's windiest with average wind speed of 16 mph, nicknamed 'windy wellington'
mount washington — new hampshire peak that recorded 231 mph wind gust in 1934, highest observed wind speed on earth