pilot jacket
nounEtymology So called because it was worn by seamen: pilots (helmsmen) and pilots (assistants to helmsmen).
1
A pea coat.
- The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- pilot-jacketed
- Related terms
- pilot cloth