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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

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

Maxim turned to me, laughing, wiping the hair out of his eyes, and I unrolled the sleeves of my mackintosh caught by the sea spray.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

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

Of course the "Ayes" had it, and we are now putting the whole house in requisition for cloaks, mantles, and mackintoshes.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

Nico, however, painted in the rain, enveloped in mackintoshes and encompassed by umbrellas, and was much disgusted to find that he attracted no attention at all.

From Norway by Beatrix Jungman




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