mackinaw

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“Busia and I entered the forest. She and I went alone, nearly a century apart but also together. … We disappeared into the dense forests. She wore a cape. I wore a mackinaw jacket.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2023

My grandfather, as a rank seaman, wore a wool mackinaw, a family heirloom now in the possession of my brother, who lives in Maryland, where he never has to deal with 13 below.

From Slate • Jan. 7, 2014

Jack Mulhall as the kindly miner never leaves one in doubt as to the heart of gold that throbs beneath his mackinaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the way he shrugged and scowled, it seemed the President blamed his bulky green mackinaw.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the fall he burned brush piles and raked leaves for Virginia Gatewood, a stick figure at twilight in cloth gloves and a threadbare mackinaw coat ragged at the elbows.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson