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lumber-jacketed en · ADJ

Etymology

From lumberjacket + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a lumberjacket.
   • Nowadays it occasionally opens its doors to show a bobbed-haired and lumber-jacketed assemblage corresponding novelties in loud speakers and motor cars. 1930 August 23, R.D.J., ““White Elephants.””, in The Age, number 23,517, Melbourne, Vic., page 6:
   • Police were asked to search for blue-eyed, lumber-jacketed Johnnie Miller, 8, by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller 3826 Park ave., Bronx, yesterday. 1927 January 14, “Seek Boy of 8”, in Daily News, volume 8, number 174, New York, N.Y., page 8:
   • Scarborough gets picked on a lot – mean jibes about it being a land of strip malls, high-rises and doughnut shops filled with lumber-jacketed heavy-metal burnouts. 2003 May 13, Samantha Grice, “They’re just teasing: Soap company’s Big Hair Shampoo pokes good clean fun at Scarborough”, in National Post, volume 5, number 166, page AL2:
2. (not-comparable) Having a lumberjacket.
   • Lumber-jacketed and freshly neat, with its deep, flanged armholes—straight, knee-slit skirt—it has the Farmington look that is casual smartness. 1946 May 1, “Stevens”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CV, number 104, page 10:
   • These bulky coats are worn over leather belted lumber-jacketed suits or the simplest of fitted dresses. 1957 July 31, “Balmain Sees Women As Tibetan Monks”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, number 31,817, London, page 7:
   • Lumber-jacketed Airtone in light-and-dark greens, Indian brown with beige or navy with powder blue. 1940 May 3, “Saturday at Horne’s”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 56, number 312, Pittsburgh, Pa., page thirty-one:

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