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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

Only a few days later, John Galliano debuted what he called an “artisanal” men’s wear collection for Margiela: Electric blue vinyl pants and vampy décortiqué boots were juxtaposed against a Japonisme mackintosh coat.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2019

My novel Heartbreak has an epigraph from Ulysses: "the man in the mackintosh loves a lady who is dead".

From The Guardian ● Feb. 11, 2011

I must have been the first person to put on that mackintosh since the handkerchief was used.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It should not be tight, and mackintoshes and goloshes are injurious to health.

From Turkish and Other Baths A Guide to Good Health and Longevity by Gordon Stables

Alongside it they stretched out their mackintoshes on the sodden ground, and having waited till the day had broken, and satisfied themselves that no one was about, they lay down and fell asleep.

From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton


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