pea jacket

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See also: peajacket

English

Etymology

Apparently from pee (the letter P) + jacket, perhaps after Dutch pijjakker, though this is only attested much later. Compare also later pea coat.

Noun

pea jacket (plural pea jackets)

  1. A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.
    • 1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 186:
      Since furs are unknown here, I decided to put on a pea-jacket [translating Schifferkutte] which we had brought with us as a joke.

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