pea jacket

noun

A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.

Similar
peacoat
OriginDutch pijjakker →
First used 18th c.
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Meanings

nounpea jacket (plural pea jackets)

plural pea jackets

  1. A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.First known use 18th c.

    Since furs are unknown here, I decided to put on a pea-jacket [translating Schifferkutte] which we had brought with us as a joke.

    1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 186

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket

Similar
peacoat
Broader
jacket
Also see
pea coat

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Dutchpijjakker
  2. Englishpea jacket

Probably from Dutch pijjakker, from pij (“coat of coarse cloth, cowl”) + jekker (“jacket”). Compare also later pea coat.

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