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Parka

//ˈpɑɹkə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A long jacket with a hood which protects the wearer against rain and wind.

    "Basir tended to wear a beige suede parka over his shalwar kameez."

  2. 2
    a kind of heavy jacket wordnet

Etymology

1780, ultimately from Tundra Nenets парка (parka), via Aleut parka and Russian па́рка (párka). Perhaps from Proto-Uralic; see dialectal Finnish parka (“rag, swaddling clothes”), which may be a cognate from Proto-Uralic, or an early borrowing from another Uralic language.

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