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Mackinaw coat

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/ ˈmækɪˌnɔː /

noun

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

"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

Etymology

Origin of Mackinaw coat

C19: named after Mackinaw, variant of Mackinac


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The youngster's hands were thrust firmly into the pockets of the Mackinaw coat as he stood eyeing Hippy with a sullen expression on his face.

From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

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.

From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis

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.

From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

But the moment McGraw reappeared in arctics and Mackinaw coat, Griffith hurriedly led the way out of the smother of smoke and foul air.

From Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

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

From 'Me--Smith' by Gayle Porter Hoskins

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