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windblown

[wind-blohn]
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adjective
  1. blown by the wind: windblown hair.
  2. (of trees) growing in a certain shape because of strong prevailing winds.
  3. (of a hair style) bobbed short, with the ends combed toward the forehead.
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Origin of windblown

First recorded in 1585–95; wind1 + blown1
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Related Words

puffedblastedwhiskedflutteredfannedwindblown

Examples from the Web for windblown

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  • Her hair was windblown and her face rose-flushed from her run.

  • He was a little road-crazed and windblown today, not like she remembered him from Orlando.

    Makers

    Cory Doctorow

  • Nearest the sea was the grave on the windblown, barren cliff.

    The Unknown Sea

    Clemence Housman

  • This is set upon sandstone rock whose sharper features have been worn smooth by the wash of the windblown sand.

    From Sea to Sea

    Rudyard Kipling

  • Over the flowering hawthorn the moon stood like a windblown white rose of the heavens.

British Dictionary definitions for windblown

windblown

adjective
  1. blown by the wind
  2. (of a woman's hair style) cut short and combed to look as though it has been dishevelled by the wind
  3. (of trees, shrubs, etc) growing in a shape determined by the prevailing winds
  4. NZ (of trees) felled by the wind
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