parka
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Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara is chatting away in traditional Wassoulou clothes, while Johnny Marr ambles past in an equally traditional Mancunian parka.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
As her rivals nervously shuffle in their boots, Shiffrin will clear space on the ground, fold a parka as a pillow, shut her blue eyes and doze off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
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
I took the phone and pushed it into the pocket of my parka.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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
Puffer jackets cut like dresses and huge parkas topped with XXL fake fur hats completed the look of the "hot as ice" team, as one jumper had it.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
In winter it’s not uncommon to see Somalis in traditional dress bundled up in big American-style parkas and stocking caps worn over hijabs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 7, 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
Everything they had except for the shotgun and the parkas on their backs had just sunk to the bottom of the lake.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
