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- noun Plural form of
mackinaw .
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Examples
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He was interrupted by a warm-complexioned man, clad in faded mackinaws.
CHAPTER 26 2010
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The warm-faced man in the faded mackinaws then put the witness through
CHAPTER 26 2010
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Now you know how Canadians feel; we have to do our blogging wearing mackinaws and using handsaws and teams of minute draft horses.
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The boys wore shoe-packs, blue flannel shirts with enormous pearl buttons, and mackinaws of crimson, lemon yellow, and foxy brown.
Main Street 2004
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He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson
Main Street 2004
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The gray column ended and another followed, the light streaming luridly this time over red toboggan caps and flaming crimson mackinaws, and as they entered they took up the refrain; then came
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Joshua pocketed his monte winnings, and collected mackinaws from the pegs beside the door.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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They trailed quietly off the gangplank in Seattle in the early dusk, Jeremy carrying a new guitar case in addition to his carpetbag, all of them back in the familiar comfort of flannel shirts and Levi's, their mackinaws buttoned against the raw evening cold.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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Joshua pocketed his monte winnings, and collected mackinaws from the pegs beside the door.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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They trailed quietly off the gangplank in Seattle in the early dusk, Jeremy carrying a new guitar case in addition to his carpetbag, all of them back in the familiar comfort of flannel shirts and Levi's, their mackinaws buttoned against the raw evening cold.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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