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
Donna corrected this: "the man in the brown mackintosh loves a lady who is dead".
From The Guardian • Feb. 11, 2011
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
It must have been in the mackintosh pocket for a long time.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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