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Answer for the clue "Like rumble-seat hair ", 9 letters:
windblown

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Word definitions for windblown in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. used especially of trees; growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of a tree English) growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds 2 (context of seeds leaves etc English) dispersed by the wind 3 (context of a person English) having disheveled hair blown about by the wind

Usage examples of windblown.

During this period numerous caves were located and excavated, Pleistocene-age river terraces and sand dunes were surveyed and tested for archeological remains, fossil shorelines of lakes were examined, and thick deposits of windblown silt, or loess, deposited during the Pleistocene were searched for evidence of former human activity.

Hands, barely visible, like windblown snow, gripped Talis, lifted him.

Tall, stooped, gangling, with a bladelike nose, he had coarse windblown hair and long flopping hands.

A gull shied away from me and was whirled screaming up the face of the cliffs like a piece of windblown paper.

Standing back to let the others hack down the vines and bushes, I saw the still intact arch of the doorway, now low enough to touch as the generations of windblown soil had suffocated the entrance, raising the ground level.

Paks took down her windblown hair and rebraided it quickly, then downed a mug of asar.

The handle and hinges were dark stains of corrosion on the wood and windblown soil obscured the bottom edge of the door.

It fitted intimately into the saltated friction of windblown sand across the barracans that concealed the village from her sight.

Though the rag-tatters over her sand-colored robe were the best camouflage she could have, though her feet left no lasting tracks in the windblown sand, still she stank of fear, of stale sweat, and of the breastmilk down the front of her bodysuit that had soured before drying.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicing long curling gashes into the clay cap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicinglong curling gashes into the claycap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

They come in from Burbclaves all over the area in their four-wheel-drive trucks and tear across the open ground, slicing long curling gashes into the claycap that was placed on the really bad parts to prevent windblown asbestos from blizzarding down over Disneyland.

His mostly gray hair was windblown, his square face and worn buff coat dusty.

He looked back to see Butterfield crawling over a tangle of rocks and windblown creosote branches.

Niall had often seen the camel spider -- or solifugid -- travelling across the desert at this speed, looking like a ball of windblown grass.