pea-jacketed
pea-jacketed adjective: wearing a pea jacket.
Adjective
pea-jacketed (not comparable)
- Wearing a pea jacket.
- 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...1844, J. M., “The Pilot”, in A Few Local Sketches, Calcutta: […] W. H. Carey and Co., page 29
- 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
- Having a pea jacket.
- 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
- CALVIN KLEIN’S PROPHETIC PEA-JACKETED SUIT1971 October 21, Chicago Tribune, 125th year, number 294, page 5
Forms of pea-jacketed
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Origin of pea-jacketed
From pea jacket + -ed.
Questions about pea-jacketed
- What does pea-jacketed mean?
- Pea-jacketed means wearing a pea jacket.
- What part of speech is pea-jacketed?
- Pea-jacketed is an adjective.
Words near pea-jacketed in the dictionary
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