mackintosh
IPA: mˈækʌntɑʃ
noun
- A waterproof long coat made of rubberized cloth.
- (by extension) Any waterproof coat or raincoat.
- Waterproof rubberized cloth.
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Examples of "mackintosh" in Sentences
- A man in a serge suit and a beige mackintosh sits on a folding chair, smoking a cigarette.
- I got my bicycle, my watch, and my father's mackintosh out of pawn and rented a typewriter.
- He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.
- Once Dick suggested that she take his oilskins, as her mackintosh was worth no more than paper in such a storm.
- I pawned my watch, my bicycle, and a mackintosh of which my father had been very proud and which he had left to me.
- There's Bill stumbling up the road, umbrella-armed, mackintosh wet- spotted, swaying like a sailor off a sea journey.
- I struggled along, stood off the butcher and the grocer, pawned my watch and bicycle and my father's mackintosh, and I worked.
- And hanging up one of the bird-skin rugs in its place, the "mackintosh" was drawn and carefully knotted around the rim of the shaky receptacle.
- It was not alone Molly Travis who pulled on gum boots, mackintosh, and straps; for the phantom hands of ten thousand forbears drew tight the buckles, just so as they squared her jaw and set her eyes with determination.
- And when you flip through the hundreds of photographs Larkin left, you see that the huge majority are of this cockatoo of a woman called Monica, and in a single glance you realise what an extraordinary couple they must have made: he so soberly dressed in mackintosh and bicycle clips, and her so exquisitely and loudly turned out: extraordinary hats and wacky stockings, mannish pinstripe trousers and daringly (for the time) short skirts.
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