WordNet
n. a wind from the northwest [syn: northwester]
Wikipedia
Northwest Wind is a style of music which emerged on the popular music scene in mainland China from the northwestern or xibei portion of China specifically from the Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. The style is a western-style fast tempo, strong beat and extremely aggressive bass lines that is distinctly different from cantopop or mandopop from Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively. It later evolved into Chinese Rock in the late 1980s.
Usage examples of "northwest wind".
He looked away, up the beautiful white curve of the foresail, full of the breath of the northwest wind.
Although Jim Lloyd riding left drag would eat dust during the westward leg of the journey, when the trail turned north, as it did once the Pecos was reached, the prevailing northwest wind would throw the greater burden on Bufe Coker riding right drag.
It should be effected during the night, with a northwest wind of moderate force, and the aeronauts calculated that they would reach General Lee's camp in a few hours.
It should be effected during the night, with a northwest wind of moderate force, and the aeronauts calculated that they would reach General Lee’.
There was a northwest wind, but even with tacking, it should take them about five hours to reach the Vale of Thanksgiving.
It was a northwest wind, blowing hard toward the southeast, where the Quman approached.
It would soon drop over the earth's rim since the carrier would have to spend the next several hours running into the northwest wind, then the universe would consist of only the ships, the sea and the sky.
The flakes are still huge and fluffy, millions of them, whirling in the mild northwest wind.
Curtis told us that it was long since he had been able to take any observation of latitude, but there was no doubt the northwest wind had driven us far to the south.
Then they had set their course due southeast so as to traverse the mouth of the Gulf of California, a journey that had ended up taking several days because the Virazon, or northwest wind down the coast, had failed.
Exasperated, they blew up an armed enemy brigantine trapped in the ice not far from shore, then pitched their camp nearby upon a bare bleak hill, in full rake of the northwest wind, with no other covering or shelter than the canopy of the heavens, and no fuel but some old rotten rails which we dug up in the snow.
His eyes were already watering, and he squinted painfully into the cold northwest wind that tried to sweep him back through the doors.