parkie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Elderly ladies chatted to him, a parkie warned him of the rules.
From The Guardian • Jun. 30, 2012
The characteristic garment is the parkie or overshirt, not open in front, however, provided with a hood and made of caribou skin tanned with the hair on.
From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)
With his one good hand Ferriss drew a pipe and a handful of tea leaves wrapped in oiled paper from the breast of his deer-skin parkie.
From A Man's Woman by Norris, Frank
He wanted his drill parkie hood bordered with fur, as I had done some belonging to others, and I furnished the fox tails, and sewed them on for him.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
There I ran at the handle-bars for a time, but at last I threw myself upon the sled among the furs, and pulled a parkie over me.
From A Woman who went to Alaska by Sullivan, May Kellogg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
