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Mackinaw blanket

noun

  1. a thick woolen blanket, often woven with bars of color, formerly used in the northern and western U.S. by Indians, loggers, etc.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mackinaw blanket1

An Americanism dating back to 1815–25
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Example Sentences

We stopped at a hotel, and I slept in my Mackinaw blanket that I carried with me, on the dining-room floor.

In silence he arose and slipped on his mackinaw blanket coat.

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