souwester

He found it hard to move in his oilcloth suit and the souwester had tipped into his eyes.

Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

Finally he bought a yellow oilcloth jacket and a pair of huge trousers to go with it and a souwester, all of the same material.

Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

He had lost his souwester, the branch of a tree had lifted it off his head and it hung above the path, half a mile behind him, as a gay little flag in an endless wet green maze.

Tumbleweed Van de Wetering, Janwillem 1976

She was debating within her mind whether to don mackintosh and souwester and face the elements, or whether to retire to a far corner of the drawing-room with a novel, as much as possible out of earshot of the

Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore

He appeared to be a middle-sized, elderly person, in oilskins and souwester, and when he spoke a gray whisker wagged above the chin strap of the souwester.

The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The youth of the tuneful and birdlike name dealt his tormentor a hearty though affectionate cuff on the ears, and being thus suddenly thrust forward, he doffed his broad souwester, took the hand I held out to him, and, stooping down, kissed me, quite in a simple and audible manner, on the cheek.

Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

He first came up with a souwester on his head, the wrong end foremost, and a pair of canvas shoes on his feet, -- a sort of miniature Micawber, or first-class cockney "salt," about to breast the briny.

A Boy's Voyage Round the World Samuel Smiles 1858

The clouds, which had been thickening for hours, now broke in torrents of rain, and old Alister got into his water-proof oil-skin and souwester, and we into our beds.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829