Definition of "prevailing wind" [prevailing wind]

• The predominant wind direction (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "But he had Bogey's gangly wrists, and Bogey's manic stride and hellbent look about him, and Bogey's haywire mop of sandy hair blown to one side by a prevailing wind and stuck there, and rosy bursts of colour on his upper cheeks."