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The Grapes of Wrath vocabulary
9 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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jerkin
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synonyms: tabard ???
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Definition:a vest; a close-fitting jacket made of leather
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Konstantin, taking off his galoshes, listened to what the gentleman in the jerkin was saying.
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Having thus fixed fifty hooks to as many cables, I went back to the northeast coast, and putting off my coat, shoes, and stockings, walked into the sea in my leathern jerkin, about half an hour before high-water. I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground;
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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He was barefoot, but otherwise clad in a short jerkin and thin breeches,
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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A coachman in a jerkin, who stood nearest,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 09 (Book Nine)
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