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nounMao jacket (plural Mao jackets)
plural Mao jackets
- Synonym of Mao suit.
Beijing itself signified the transformation. When I visited in 1979 it was a grim city where every pedestrian dressed in a drab gray Mao jacket and every street corner had a loudspeaker repeating the sayings of Mao. The city was desolate and joyless.
2010, Walter Mondale, David Hage, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, Scribner, →ISBN, page 221Synonyms: Mao suit
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nounSynonym of Mao suit.
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