windswept

/ˈwɪndswept/ adjective

Definition

PLACE › A windswept place often has strong winds: a remote, windswept hill

PERSON › looking untidy because you have been in the wind: windswept hair

(Definition of windswept adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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