pea-jacketed

alternative peajacketed

1. not comparableWearing a pea jacket.

   The huge, burly, pea-jacketed medical student—for such I saw at once he was—laid hold of me on the right tenderly enough, and walked me off between him and the policeman.

   1850, [Charles Kingsley], “The Sceptic’s Mother”, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, page 82

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   His costume and bearing, so different from those of the pea-jacketed, quid-chewing, salt-beef devouring, rum-bibbing being whom the word Pilot recalls to the said Briton’s memory—his address, such an admirable compound of ease, freedom, and dignity,—his refined, delicate and expensive tastes,—his twice a-day changes of snow-white raiment,—his splendid dressing case,—his neat and complete portable establishment,—his flashy servant,—are all, to the newly-imported, novelties and wonders.

   1844, J. M., “The Pilot”, in A Few Local Sketches, Calcutta: […] W. H. Carey and Co., page 29

   The Fiesta restaurant, across from the new Metro Toronto library on Yonge Street north of Bloor, used to be a greasy spoon and a haven for all the wire-rimmed, pea-jacketed students who populate the district.

   1981 November 2, Jamie Lamb, “Preposterous Pap is our new icon”, in The Vancouver Sun, volume 95, number 1, Vancouver, B.C., page A4

2. not comparableHaving a pea jacket.

   IN: Pea-jacketed suits.

   1980 June 19, “Ins & Outs of Women’s Wear”, in Shirley Davis, editor, Quad-City Times, Quad-Cities, Iowa and Illinois, page 15

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   A breakaway to what is in, what is now and a must for the girl in the fashion know is the smart practicality of the pea-jacketed suit.

   1966 August 11, The Sacramento Bee, volume 219, number 35,632, Sacramento, Calif., page B3

   CALVIN KLEIN’S PROPHETIC PEA-JACKETED SUIT

   1971 October 21, Chicago Tribune, 125th year, number 294, page 5