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 wore a bulky mackintosh and a man’s tie around her neck.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite.
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
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
Alongside it they stretched out their mackintoshes on the sodden ground, and having waited till the day had broken, and satisfied themselves that no one was about, they lay down and fell asleep.
From With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
Umbrellas, parasols, and mackintoshes were put into requisition.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
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