sou'wester

Was it not the sea-gear of men?--leather jackets lined with corduroy, blue coats of pilot cloth, sou'westers, sea-boots, oilskins.

The background, composed of handkerchiefs, coats, shirts, hats, and other old articles 'On Leaving,' had a general dim resemblance to human listeners; especially where a shiny black sou'wester suit and hat hung, looking very like a clumsy mariner with his back to the company, who was so curious to overhear, that he paused for the purpose with his coat half pulled on, and his shoulders up to his ears in the uncompleted action.

Everything was wet except Maud, and she, in oilskins, rubber boots, and sou'wester, was dry, all but her face and hands and a stray wisp of hair.

The night should have turned more wet since I came in, for he had a large sou'wester hat on, slouched over his face.

Charley pulled his sou'wester over his eyes, and I followed his example, though I could not guess the idea he evidently had in mind and intended to carry into execution.

"Dad keeps my spare rig where he kin overhaul it, 'cause ma sez I'm keerless." He rummaged through a locker, and in less than three minutes Harvey was adorned with fisherman's rubber boots that came half up his thigh, a heavy blue jersey well darned at the elbows, a pair of flippers, and a sou'wester.

Reappearing presently in a sou'wester and oilskins, he ran off through the rain and vaulted over the gate with ridiculous elegance.

He was hanging on to my bunk, staring into my face out of his sou'wester.

Thankfully, despite warnings of heavy rain showers and even thunder and lightning, the sun shone on Swansea for most of the weekend, leaving Big Weekenders needing more sunscreen than sou'westers.

Postcards acknowledge the "changeable" weather, typically featuring locals standing in a gale saying things like "This year we've got it lucky" or two Breton "nudists" clad in sou'westers.

And some of their fans were wearing bright yellow sou'westers and trawlermen's hats.

"If you like John Malkovich as a maniacally paranoid former black ops spy hiding under sou'westers and faking his own death, you get him doing that, too.