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pea jacket en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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. 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 186:

Forms

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pea jackets Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

pea-jacketed

Descendants

пиджа́к