peacoat

pea coat

or pea·coat (pē′kōt′)n. A short, warm, double-breasted coat of heavy wool, traditionally worn by sailors. Also called pea jacket.

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[pea (as in pea jacket) + coat.]

pea′ jack`et

n. 1. a short, double-breasted coat of navy-blue wool, worn by seamen. 2. any jacket or short coat resembling this. Also called peacoat. [1715–25, Amer.; pea, variant sp. of pay, pee, pie coat of coarse woolen cloth (late Middle English pee, pey, pie; akin to Dutch pij, dial. Frisian pey, dial. Swedish paje); perhaps modeled on Frisian (N Frisian) pijekkat]

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peacoat - a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacketpea jacketjacket - a short coat