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pea-jacketed en · ADJ

Etymology

From pea jacket + -ed.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Wearing a pea jacket.
   • The Fiesta restaurant, across from the new Metro Toronto library on Yonge Street north of Bloor, used to be a greasy spoon and a haven for all the wire-rimmed, pea-jacketed students who populate the district. 1981 November 2, Jamie Lamb, “Preposterous Pap is our new icon”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 95, number 1, Vancouver, B.C., page A4:
   • The huge, burly, pea-jacketed medical student—for such I saw at once he was—laid hold of me on the right tenderly enough, and walked me off between him and the policeman. 1850, [Charles Kingsley], “The Sceptic’s Mother”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 82:
   • His costume and bearing, so different from those of the pea-jacketed, quid-chewing, salt-beef devouring, rum-bibbing being whom the word Pilot recalls to the said Briton’s memory—his address, such an admirable compound of ease, freedom, and dignity,—his refined, delicate and expensive tastes,—his twice a-day changes of snow-white raiment,—his splendid dressing case,—his neat and complete portable establishment,—his flashy servant,—are all, to the newly-imported, novelties and wonders. 1844, J. M., “The Pilot”, in A Few Local Sketches, Calcutta: […] W. H. Carey and Co., page 29:
2. (not-comparable) Having a pea jacket.
   • IN: Pea-jacketed suits. 1980 June 19, “Ins & Outs of Women’s Wear”, in Shirley Davis, editor, Quad-City Times, Quad-Cities, Iowa and Illinois, page 15:
   • CALVIN KLEIN’S PROPHETIC PEA-JACKETED SUIT 1971 October 21, Chicago Tribune, 125th year, number 294, page 5:
   • A breakaway to what is in, what is now and a must for the girl in the fashion know is the smart practicality of the pea-jacketed suit. 1966 August 11, The Sacramento Bee, volume 219, number 35,632, Sacramento, Calif., page B3:

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