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Pea jacket

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.

    "Since furs are unknown here, I decided to put on a pea-jacket [translating Schifferkutte] which we had brought with us as a joke."

  2. 2
    a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket wordnet

Etymology

Probably from Dutch pijjakker, from pij (“coat of coarse cloth, cowl”) + jekker (“jacket”). Compare also later pea coat.

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