Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A raincoat.
- noun A lightweight, waterproof fabric that was originally of rubberized wool or cotton.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A garment, particularly an overcoat or cloak, rendered water-proof by a solution of india-rubber, either applied on the surface as a coating or placed between two thicknesses of some cloth of suitable texture.
- noun Rubber cloth of the kind used in making a mackintosh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
waterproof long coat made ofrubberized cloth. - noun By extension, any waterproof coat or
raincoat . - noun Waterproof rubberized cloth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric
- noun a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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A man in a serge suit and a beige mackintosh sits on a folding chair, smoking a cigarette.
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I struggled along, stood off the butcher and the grocer, pawned my watch and bicycle and my father's mackintosh, and I worked.
Chapter 26 2010
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There's Bill stumbling up the road, umbrella-armed, mackintosh wet- spotted, swaying like a sailor off a sea journey.
Where's Me Dinner Woman? James Claffey 2011
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He hung his mackintosh and hat on the rack in the comfortable square hall and turned to her for direction.
Chapter XVIII 2010
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I got my bicycle, my watch, and my father's mackintosh out of pawn and rented a typewriter.
Chapter 25 2010
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Once Dick suggested that she take his oilskins, as her mackintosh was worth no more than paper in such a storm.
SIWASH 2010
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I pawned my watch, my bicycle, and a mackintosh of which my father had been very proud and which he had left to me.
Chapter 25 2010
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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.
SIWASH 2010
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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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