pea jacket
nounEtymology Probably from Dutch pijjakker, from pij (“coat of coarse cloth, cowl”) + jekker (“jacket”). Compare also later pea coat.
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A short woollen overcoat, originally as worn by sailors; a pea coat.
- 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:
- Derived terms
- pea-jacketed