Westerlies
Britishplural noun
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In past festival iterations, Westerlies clinics have centered on South Seattle, from the Highline school district to Hawthorne Elementary.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
The Seattle-reared, Brooklyn-based brass quartet is back home for their fifth-annual Westerlies Fest, a mix of live performances and student workshops aimed at spurring the next generation of homegrown jazz players.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
“It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course,” read the Foreign Ministry’s statement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2023
Among the performers are Owls, a string quartet, and the Westerlies, a brass quartet.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022
It seems rather as though the great gales of the Westerlies must begin in these latitudes with such mild disturbances as we have just experienced.
From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon
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