anorak
Example Sentences
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Get your anorak out of the cupboard for this one.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2022
Sara Cummings, clad in an arctic-white anorak, baggy forest-green cargo pants and thick-soled white hiking boots, is about to step in front of the camera at the Reese Cooper fashion show and lookbook shoot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 21, 2021
Morrison is an internet specialist rather than a political anorak, which partly explains why, to a political journalist such as myself, his take on current affairs seems so unorthodox.
From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2019
The actor Richard Madden, all in black, fastened a punctilious safety pin on his lapel, while the singer Frank Ocean wore a nylon Prada anorak that transformed him into a backpack.
From The New Yorker • May 7, 2019
Laura was wearing a shapeless blue anorak, and her hair—a lot shorter than before—was sticking to her forehead.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.