ˈpea-coat
[f. after pea-jacket.]
= pea-jacket.
| 1790 Pennsylvania Packet 4 Jan. 2/2 There are now lodged in the said Office..1 pea coat;..1 coatee [etc.]. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes II. viii. 244 The hoarse pilot, wrapped and muffled in pea-coats and shawls. 1845 R. Brown in Mem. ii. (1866) 24 Most of the pea-coats have been laid aside. 1848 Clough Bothie v, In heavy pea⁓coat his trouserless trunk enwrapping. 1861 Dickens Gt. Expect. liv, We had our pea-coats with us, and I took a bag. 1974 New Yorker 25 Feb. 80/2 Neatly dressed in a sort of modified peacoat of generally Edwardian cut. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 16/6 His youth was not exactly the Andy Hardy story. He got into trouble with teen-age drinking. At one point, he lived in a car; at another he fenced hot peacoats. |