sou'wester

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Noun
  • Donning a short dark wig and backwards baseball cap, Carpenter looked almost unrecognizable in the sketch.
    Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Meyer, 37, wore a baseball cap over her long blonde hair.
    Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Wear one solo with jeans on warm days, or throw it over a collared shirt or under a trench coat when temps drop.
    Jeaneen Russell, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
  • At last, he was being given the green light to incorporate his personal style into a project, dressing Chow in a stiff trench coat — a nod to both Alain Delon and his favorite Japanese star, Ken Takakura — and giving the character a strict code of honor that would become a Woo signature.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Clockwise from top: A 1957 Balenciaga hat, Deirdre Hawken’s Cauliflower Headpiece from 2013, a layered silk hat from the 1940s, and a 1942 Germaine Vittu hat.
    Nathan Heller, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Yet, Halston does clock something of use from the experience: a young woman in the audience who, among the sweater sets, is wearing a colorful silk hat.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 14 May 2021
Noun
  • Carve a trench next to a body of water and the liquid flows convincingly into the gap.
    Griff Griffin, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Macy wears a trench, and beneath it, a sheer negligee.
    Charlie Markbreiter, Them., 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Filmed by the owner from inside a car, the video first shows a dark figure in the corner—a skeleton with a beard and top hat—facing the wall.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • So there’s also the lizard, the top hat with the veil moment, the secret handshake — which, in our version, becomes a five-minute production number.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The brand will continue its successful collaboration strategy, too, with partnerships such as Bonpoint for children’s clothing and Hunter boots for rain gear.
    Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2025
  • As for today's weather forecast, storm chances will continue throughout the day, so keep the rain gear nearby.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Instead of high hats, use wall washers, which bounce light off the walls and space.
    Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Going high hat just did not fit, and on Sept. 9, 1927, the Bernheimer flags came down.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 June 2022
Noun
  • One of the most popular traditional costumes was the bauta, which consisted of a full mask, a cape that covered the head and shoulders, and a tricorn or cocked hat.
    Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Heather Wilson, a nurse anesthetist, wore huge fake eyelashes and an absurd cocked hat.
    William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
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“Sou'wester.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sou%27wester. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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