Mackinaw coat
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Mackinaw coat
C19: named after Mackinaw, variant of Mackinac
Example Sentences
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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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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 Davis, Richard Harding
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 Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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.
From Higgins A Man's Christian by Duncan, Norman
She pulled aside his Mackinaw coat and laid her head upon his breast.
From 'Me--Smith' by Hoskins, Gayle Porter
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