cardinal winds

from The Century Dictionary.

• those which blow from the cardinal points.
• noun In the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the Sacred College, a body of ecclesiastics who rank in dignity next to the pope and act as his counselors in the government of the church.
• noun A cloak, originally of scarlet cloth, with a hood, much worn by women at the beginning of the eighteenth century: so named from its similarity in shape and color to one of the vestments of a cardinal.
• noun A rich deep-red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet: named from the color of the vestments of a cardinal.
• noun A hot drink similar to bishop, but usually made with claret instead of port, of which bishop is compounded.
• noun In ornithology: A bird of the genus Cardinalis (which see), as the cardinal redbird, Cardinalis virginianus, and some related species, as C. igneus and others, A name applied to several other crested finches of America, as the species of the genus Paroaria, and the Gubernatrix cristatella.