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parka

[pahr-kuh] / ˈpɑr kə /




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Arc’teryx got the ultimate celebrity boost in China when Chinese leader Xi Jinping wore an Arc’teryx parka in 2021 to inspect venues for the Olympics and again at the Opening Ceremony.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 6, 2025

The crowd are far more likely to spend their day in the sunshine on Saturday, but it will still be blustery and may feel slightly cool – the perfect weather to break out a parka.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025

Then she deduces Heiss must have gotten the parka from Clark and asks where he is.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024

Appearing in a parka and a skullcap, he said he had only escaped because he believed he would be killed if he had remained in custody.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

That’s when I noticed the back of a man in an orange parka boarding a bus.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

Draped silhouettes and oversize parkas become an entry point into a vortex in which linearity doesn’t exist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

You’re asking quietly if you can model parkas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2025

A hundred workers in parkas and ruanas began to load the trucks, each one bound for a different section of the Colombian capital.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2024

The new group I talked to didn’t mind the weather as they shook off their parkas.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

Bill Weiss and Frank Gibson were wrapped in their parkas and their breaths hung frozen in the air.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell




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