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The west; the area of the setting sun. examples
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Pertaining to the west, westerly. quotations examples
Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent winds, Eurus and Zephyr
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
There was an ambiguity surpassing conjecture in her eyes, and the wind rose up around us in that half barbaric Russian garden with its alien Diana blackened by snows and fierce ponent winds
1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!