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southwest

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southwest
1. the point of the compass or the direction midway between west and south, 225° clockwise from north
2. (esp of the wind) from the southwest

Southwest
the southwestern part of Britain, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset


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"I don't know, 'zactly," returned the little girl; "but it must be somewhere just southwest from here.
George's Hill, Weybridge, and the village of Send, southwest of Ripley.
The brig was close hauled, so as to round the southwest corner of the Island of Mull, the hills of which (and Ben More above them all, with a wisp of mist upon the top of it) lay full upon the lar-board bow.
 
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