windswept

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English

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Etymology

From wind +‎ swept.

Adjective

windswept (comparative more windswept, superlative most windswept)

  1. Exposed to the winds.
    We struggled over the windswept moorland.
    • 1953 October, H. C. Casserley, “Closure of the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 703:
      A noteworthy engineering feature on this line was the Owencarrow Viaduct, situated in one of the most windswept portions of the line. On January 30, 1925, a train was blown off the viaduct during a gale, and thereafter trains were prohibited from crossing when the wind exceeded a certain velocity.
    • 20 January 2017, Donald Trump, Inauguration Speech
      And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.

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