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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
windswept
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
windsweptespecially literary (= blown around by the wind)
▪ Her hair was all windswept when they came off the beach.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the windswept Montana plains
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A story of indiscretion and retribution set in windswept Cornwall.
▪ Light a candle there on a windswept night, and you might just catch a glimpse of him.
▪ Strange, windswept cliffs of sandstone break through rolling hills of soft, powdery soil.
▪ These tall, uniform boxes are set back from the street, isolated by windswept plazas.
▪ What my traveling companion remembered from the mid 1970s as a lonely, windswept point has become a bustling little town.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
windswept

1932, originally of hair, from wind (n.1) + past participle of sweep (v.).

Wiktionary
windswept

a. exposed to the winds.

WordNet
windswept

adj. open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"

Wikipedia
Windswept

"Windswept" is a single performed by Bryan Ferry, the lead vocalist for Roxy Music. The track is the third and final single from the chart-topping album Boys and Girls which was released in 1985, but unlike the previous singles it didn't perform too well on the charts. The song appeared in the Miami Vice episode "The Prodigal Son".

The track features David Gilmour, the former guitarist for Pink Floyd.

The UK version of the single has four tracks which included a new track ("Broken Wings") and covers of "Crazy Love" (by Van Morrison) and " Feel the Need" (by Abrim Tilmon).

Windswept (disambiguation)

Windswept may refer to:

  • Windswept, a song performed by Bryan Ferry
  • Windswept (Steuben, Maine), the summer house of writer Mary Ellen Chase
  • '' Windswept (novel), a book by Mary Ellen Chase
  • Windswept Acres-Powers House
  • Windswept Farm
  • Windswept House: A Vatican Novel
  • Nematoceras dienemum, also known as the "windswept helmet orchid"
Windswept (Steuben, Maine)

Windswept is a historic summer cottage at 421 Petit Manan Point Road in Steuben, Maine. Built sometime between 1928 and 1934, it was from 1941 until 1955 the summer home of Mary Ellen Chase (1887-1973), one of Maine's most important regional writers of the period. It was the inspiration for her bestselling work, Windswept. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Usage examples of "windswept".

Finally the barges reached snowbound and windswept heathlands in which a few sheep-pens and juniper bushes projected themselves from sculpted snowdrifts like ruins.

It was beautiful land, open and windswept, with prairies even more bleak than those McKeag knew on the eastern slope.

When they reached the high, windswept plateaus where the snow and rain blew together in a continual swirling dance, Sir Cyril thought they must surely leave the gypsy wagons behind, or mire them in the man-high drifts.

The little knot of armed Tran and humans decelerated on its dark, windswept, western flank.

She and Gamaliel had quickly descended from the sharp, windswept peak where the standing stone had transported them, moving below the timberline and into the vast, silent stands of fir and pine that blanketed the slopes of the mountain.

The light was fading rapidly under the dark, windswept evergreens, and the ruddy glow of their campfire beckoned cheerfully as he started back up through the trees with the full waterbags hanging pendulously down against his thighs.

Hundreds of miles away, in a windswept, foreboding land called the Barbacan, in a deep cave in a mountain called Aida, the dactyl basked in the sensation of fear.

Traveling at first by train and then in a rented ground car, Cedric eventually caught up with his kinsman on a grassy, windswept headland overlooking the sea.

Finally having entirely repacked the beaded bag three times, Hermione seemed unable to find any more reasons to delay: She and Harry gasped hands and Disapparated, reappearing on a windswept heather-covered hillside.

She saw herself walking through a windswept landscape, knees held high as she crunched through deep snow.

Leaning back into the softly yielding caramel brown leather of his swivel chair, Dan gazed out at the windswept launch complex.

His hands stroked her silken flesh, and he wondered what it would feel like to take her on a windswept moor or in a sheltered forest glen.

With the freakishness peculiar to fashion magazines, Lorna Munro had been required to model Gaultier's summer collection on a January day, on a windswept pavement.

This was not the windswept gritstone edge above the stark and wild Yorkshire moors of her dreams.

Off the bow of the Merling King stretched a bare and stony strand, windswept, treeless, and uninviting.