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Mackinaw coat

/ ˈmækɪˌnɔː /

noun

  1. a thick short double-breasted plaid coat Also calledmackinaw
“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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Mackinaw coat1

C19: named after Mackinaw, variant of Mackinac
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Example Sentences

Don placed a sandwich in each deep pocket of his mackinaw coat, and pushed an apple on top of each.

Hollister felt the chill of it through his mackinaw coat and was moved to thought of his companion's comfort.

Propped up in bed, my mackinaw coat over my 'robe de nuit' for warmth, I sit and dream.

He had opened his Mackinaw coat while running, and now he dropped it to the floor behind him.

The boy wore a battered felt hat, a fawn mackinaw coat, pants thrust into high socks and a pair of moosehide moccasins.

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