mackintosh
Example Sentences
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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
Donna corrected this: "the man in the brown mackintosh loves a lady who is dead".
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 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
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