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  • He is wearing, in addition to what one doesn't mention, an ordinary waistcoat, a woolly waistcoat for steamer use, a tweed coat, an aquascutum, an ulster, a camera and a bag of golfclubs.

    The Sunny Side 1919

  • I thanked Heaven I had got rid of the aquascutum, for the August afternoon was warm and my pace was not leisurely.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • There was nobody for the moment on the hill behind me, so I slipped into the covert, shoved the bicycle under the bridge, and hid Archie's aquascutum in a bramble thicket.

    Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

  • He is wearing, in addition to what one doesn't mention, an ordinary waistcoat, a woolly waist-coat for steamer use, a tweed coat, an aquascutum, an ulster, a camera and a bag of golf clubs.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 18, 1914 Various 1898

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