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English
Adjective
peajacketed (not comparable)
- Alternative form of pea-jacketed
1864 November, Clew Garnet, “Leaves from a Blockader’s Log. Mysteries of the Middle Watch.”, in The Dollar Monthly Magazine, volume XX, number 5 (whole 119), Boston, Mass.: Office American Union, Flag of Our Union, and Novelette , page 361:“I would see the commander of this vessel,” the lady said, after having paused at the gangway a few moments, and cast a most inquisitorial glance around her and upon the half dozen or so peajacketed gentlemen of the quarter-deck present.
1912 October 27, S. Ten Eyck Bourke, Charles Francis Bourke, “The Law of the Beach”, in Sunday Magazine, page 5:“I don’t see what good she’d do us: we’re Government employees,” Ford said, his face paling with sudden premonition as he stared at the peajacketed little man in sou’wester and sea boots—Welsh’s idea of proper “sky pilot” costume.
1929, Cornelius Weygandt, “Pennsylvania Dutch”, in The Red Hills: A Record of Good Days Outdoors and In, With Things Pennsylvania Dutch, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, published 1930, page 18:One immaculate looking limousine, seven-passenger, produced a handsome young man of twenty-five who carefully laid out the carcases of a dozen and a half roasting fowls on a wide board across light trestles, and stood, peajacketed and hands in pockets, waiting for customers.
1950 January 21, “Schoolboys Halted Here as Brink’s Bandits”, in Chillicothe Gazette, volume 150, number 18, Chillicothe, Ohio, page one:At least one unidentified Chillicothean connected seven peajacketed men “in a big, black car” with the million-dollar holdup of Brink’s in Boston, when he saw them stop at Albers super market on East Main street Wednesday evening.
1967, L. E. Sissman, “The West Forties: Morning, Noon, and Night”, in Dying: An Introduction, Atlantic Monthly Press, →LCCN, page 116:The thin strains of a Romany romance / Undaunt the ears of each peajacketed / Seaman on liberty, and of each old / Wanderer slowly losing to the cold, / And of each schoolboy who has come to see / Life in the flesh inside the Lovemovie.
1973, Howard M. Bahr, “The social organization of skid row”, in Skid Row: An Introduction to Disaffiliation, New York, N.Y., London, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →LCCN, page 153:Pride refuses to die in the shabby peajacketed man explaining his panhandling technique.