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mackintosh

[mak-in-tosh] / ˈmæk ɪnˌtɒʃ /
NOUN
raincoat
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“She wore what she was told without argument, apart from a long, drab mackintosh that she loathed,” Crawford wrote in her controversial memoir, “The Little Princesses.”

From Seattle Times May 26, 2022

She was doing a fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in the mid-2010s when she saw a red mackintosh from the 1960s.

From Science Magazine Jul. 2, 2021

Dithering at the counter, he was viewed with sympathy by an elderly woman wearing a mackintosh, scarf and dark glasses.

From The Guardian Jun. 27, 2013

Using utilitarian or techno fabrics, like mackintosh waterproofs, cashmere compacted with thermal material and leather bonded with flannel, the streamlined collection keeps its revolution inside the peacoats, bomber jackets and car coats.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2011

As she said this, I could see the doctor putting on his mackintosh and hat in the hall and so went to him, the teapot still in my hand.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

As they waited for daylight and a glimpse of history, they squirmed under umbrellas, mackintoshes, soggy blankets and newspapers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the uncertain weather of a belated Moscow spring, delegates laid aside their fur-collared coats, put on trench coats or mackintoshes as delegations prepared to leave.

From Time Magazine Archive

Umbrellas, parasols, and mackintoshes were put into requisition.

From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave

Peeping from the mackintoshes that he had heaped over me, I saw, through the driving rain and across a thickly-wooded gorge, a high, dim hill.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Cambridge, Ada




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