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mackintosh
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synonyms: ulster ???
tags: [fashion]
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Definition:a style of rubberized raincoat named for its inventor
image: in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 94 years or less since publication.
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Scobie went out into the dripping darkness holding his big striped umbrella: a mackintosh was too hot to wear.
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.134 (1948)
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It started to rain on the way but I had not the strength to go back for a mackintosh.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita.
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But as they arrived in the hall, [she] came in through the front door. She had on a mackintosh.
Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.124 (1939)
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A girl in a mackintosh signalled to her, and mechanically she answered the salute with her arm
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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It was drizzling, and I was soaked through, not having thought to bring a mac.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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(A man in a brown macintosh springs up through a trapdoor. He points an elongated finger at Bloom.)
THE MAN IN THE MACINTOSH: Don't you believe a word he says. That man is Leopold M'Intosh, the notorious fireraiser. His real name is Higgins.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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