Definition of Pea jacket
1. Noun. A sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pea Jacket
Literary usage of Pea jacket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"A pea jacket a Badge of Distinction. Town of Nukualofa. Dress of Tongan Women.
Getting Fire by Friction. Deserted Plantations. Fruit-bats Feeding on Flowers ..."
2. A Tale of Two Oceans: A New Story by an Old Californian : an Account of a by Ezekiel I. Barra (1893)
"... soon came on deck with his English pea-jacket and his sou'wester on and trumpet
in hand. He scanned the weather horizon for a minute and then told the ..."
3. A Narrative of Excursions, Voyages, and Travels, Performed at Different by George Rapelje (1834)
"together in a belt or holster right in front, with large white turbans on their
heads, a long large pea jacket with sleeves, dark olive color, ..."
4. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal: Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar by Sherard Osborn (1852)
"... pea jacket. 1 Cotton ditto. Welsh wig. 1 Waistcoat with sleeves, lined Seal-skin
cap. with flannel. Beaver-skin mitts. 1 Drawers flannel. ..."
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