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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

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

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

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

Limelight went to the post, through a sea of glistening mackintoshes, a 5-to-1 favorite.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jimmie and his nurse were also enveloped in mackintoshes.

From The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure by Margaret Vandercook

We find only colourless names, dry-as-dust names, or vulgar names, round names like pot-hats, those names like mackintoshes, names that are squashy as goloshes.

From Interpreters by Carl Van Vechten




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