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Barbour jacket

British  
/ ˈbɑːbə /

noun

  1. a hard-wearing waterproof waxed jacket

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Mr. Sunak plans to present two gifts to Mr. Biden: a personalized Barbour jacket and a copy of a book by Mr. Biden’s great-great-grandfather Christopher Biden written in the mid-1800s.

From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023

She had shoulder length dark hair and was wearing an olive green Barbour jacket, a burnt orange jumper and an orange/red and cream striped long-sleeved t-shirt and blue jeans.

From BBC • Aug. 24, 2021

My mum recently insisted on buying me a coat, but only because she was so fed up with the old Barbour jacket I had been wearing.

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020

On the way, they spotted an old man, in a tattered Barbour jacket, attempting to withdraw large sums of money from an A.T.M.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

On a recent night, a young woman giggled and texted while an older man in a Barbour jacket leaned like a lone wolf against a column, woolly eyebrows raised.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2013

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