anorak

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Get your favourite anorak out of the cupboard, because we've been studying the nominations and listening to a lot of awards season podcasts to come up with 19 seriously geeky facts about this year's contenders.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2021

The young Pellow was a music anorak – he loved indie bands and soul singers.

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2021

Sara Cummings, clad in an arctic-white anorak, baggy forest green cargo pants and thick-soled white hiking boots, is about to step in front of the camera at the Reese Cooper fashion show and lookbook shoot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2021

She shrugged, and took off her anorak to begin her stretching, but he grabbed her hand and lifted it to examine the bloodied knuckles.

From The New Yorker • May 6, 2019

As an afterthought, she took the alethiometer from her pouch and hid it in the inmost pocket of the anorak before shoving that through too.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman