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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

"I think it's the coat," she says as yet another blogging fashionista takes a snap of her canary yellow Burberry mackintosh.

From The Guardian Mar. 6, 2011

He paused, pulled on his long black coat, which had hung in the front hall, incongruous beside Mr. Frost’s tweed jacket and fawn mackintosh.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman

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

The drivers were muffled in their mackintoshes, the outside passengers crouched beneath their umbrellas.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

I opened it to two very tall girls in Burberry mackintoshes.

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Onions, Mrs. Oliver




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