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
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
Dithering at the counter, he was viewed with sympathy by an elderly woman wearing a mackintosh, scarf and dark glasses.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 27, 2013
She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching, assisted in removing Edna’s dripping mackintosh.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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
Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same sensible female figures she had seen all her life draped in the same sensible mackintoshes bowed and smiled, and she pretended she hadn't seen them.
From The Pastor's Wife by Arnim, Elizabeth von
Ten minutes later a jolly-looking party, with mackintoshes and umbrellas, followed Miss Chatham down the High Street to the Guild Hall.
From Loyal to the School by Brazil, Angela
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