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Mackinaw coat
/ ˈæɪˌɔː /
noun
- a thick short double-breasted plaid coat Also calledmackinaw
Word History and Origins
Origin of Mackinaw coat1
Example Sentences
He was wrapped in a thick Mackinaw coat, with a cloth cap pulled down over his ears; and he wore big overshoes, which buckled near to his knees.
It needed only a man in a Mackinaw coat with an axe to persuade us we had motored from a French village ten hundred years old into a perfectly new trading-post on the Saskatchewan.
She pulled aside his Mackinaw coat and laid her head upon his breast.
"I know there's Indians sneaking along in there," she whispered, "and wolves and outlaws; and maybe a Hudson Bay factor coming, in a red Mackinaw coat."
He found himself facing an uncouth-looking youth who, despite the heat of an early September afternoon, wore a heavy blanket Mackinaw coat, rubber shoes and thick stockings tied at the knee.
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