mackintosh
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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
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
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
She closed the stove door with a bang, and ap-proaching, assisted in removing Edna’s dripping mackintosh.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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
As they waited for daylight and a glimpse of history, they squirmed under umbrellas, mackintoshes, soggy blankets and newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was a portly, middle-aged female, who was a pleasant combination of mackintoshes and agitation.
From A Hero of Romance by Richard Marsh
But have a care, oh, readers fair, To take your mackintoshes, And on your feet be sure to wear A pair of stanch galoshes.
From The Genial Idiot His Views and Reviews by John Kendrick Bangs
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