Mackinaw coat

/ ˈmækɪˌnɔː /

noun

1. Also called: mackinaw. a thick short double-breasted plaid coat

Word History and Origins

Origin of Mackinaw coat¹

C19: named after Mackinaw, variant of _Mackinac

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.

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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.

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She pulled aside his Mackinaw coat and laid her head upon his breast.

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"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."

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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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